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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. OceanBase vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Event Store

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.57
Rank	#149	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

en.oceanbase.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Event Store Limited

Microsoft

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

SAP

Initial release

2012

2010

Current release

21.2, February 2021

4.3.0, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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