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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. searchxml vs. SurrealDB vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

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

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Event Store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

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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.searchxml.net/category/products

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Event Store Limited

informationpartners gmbh

SurrealDB Ltd

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2015

2022

2005

Current release

21.2, February 2021

1.0

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

R packages

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

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.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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