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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. PouchDB vs. searchxml vs. SurrealDB

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelEvent StoreDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Graph DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.compouchdb.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.compouchdb.com/­guideswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedApache Software Foundationinformationpartners gmbhSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2012201220152022
Current release21.2, February 20217.1.1, June 20191.0v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)WindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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