DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. SiteWhere vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Event Store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.80
Rank	#214	Overall
	#99	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.mcobject.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.sqlite.org

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Event Store Limited

McObject

SiteWhere

Dwayne Richard Hipp

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2001

2010

2000

2022

Current release

21.2, February 2021

8.2, 2021

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

via file-system locks

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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