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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. searchxml vs. SurrealDB

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Name	EventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	searchxml  Xexclude from comparison	SurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
		SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	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	Relational DBMS	Native XML DBMS Search engine	Document store Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.19 Rank #173   Overall #1   Event Stores		Score 0.03 Rank #390   Overall #7   Native XML DBMS #24   Search engines	Score 1.02 Rank #190   Overall #33   Document stores #18   Graph DBMS
Website	www.eventstore.com	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.searchxml.net/­category/­products	surrealdb.com
Technical documentation	developers.eventstore.com		www.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts	surrealdb.com/­docs
Developer	Event Store Limited	Sybase, SAP	informationpartners gmbh	SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release	2012	1993	2015	2022
Current release	21.2, February 2021		1.0	v1.5.0, May 2024
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source	commercial	commercial	Open Source
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language			C++	Rust
Server operating systems	Linux Windows	Linux Windows	Windows	Linux macOS Windows
Data scheme		yes	schema-free	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date		yes	yes	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	yes
Secondary indexes		yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL		yes	no	SQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods		.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	RESTful HTTP API WebDAV XQuery XSLT	GraphQL RESTful HTTP API WebSocket
Supported programming languages		Delphi Perl PHP	C++ most other programming languages supported via APIs	Deno Go JavaScript (Node.js) Rust
Server-side scripts Stored procedures		yes	yes on the application server
Triggers		yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes		none	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes		Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication	yes sychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods		no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system		Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity		yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data		ACID	multiple readers, single writer	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 caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	no
User concepts Access control		fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	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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	EventStoreDB	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS	searchxml	SurrealDB
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