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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. gStore vs. Prometheus vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name	EventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparison	gStore  Xexclude from comparison	Prometheus  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
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Description	Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.	A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.	Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database model	Event Store	Graph DBMS RDF store	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.19 Rank #173   Overall #1   Event Stores	Score 0.14 Rank #342   Overall #34   Graph DBMS #16   RDF stores	Score 7.69 Rank #50   Overall #3   Time Series DBMS
Website	www.eventstore.com	en.gstore.cn	prometheus.io	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentation	developers.eventstore.com	en.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocs	prometheus.io/­docs
Developer	Event Store Limited			Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2012	2016	2015	1993
Current release	21.2, February 2021	1.2, November 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source	Open Source BSD	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language		C++	Go
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	Linux	Linux Windows	Linux Windows
Data scheme		schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date		yes	Numeric data only	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.		no	no Import of XML data possible	no
Secondary indexes			no	yes
SQL Support of SQL		no	no	yes
APIs and other access methods		HTTP API SPARQL 1.1	RESTful HTTP/JSON API	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB
Supported programming languages		C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python	.Net C++ Go Haskell Java JavaScript (Node.js) Python Ruby	Delphi Perl PHP
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		yes	no	yes
Triggers			no	yes
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes			Sharding	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes			yes by Federation	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods		no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system			none	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity			no	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data		yes	no	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data		yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent		yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.		no	no	no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts Access control		Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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