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

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Event Store

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Event Store Limited

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2013

2015

2022

Current release

21.2, February 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

1.0

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

multiple readers, single writer

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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