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

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelEvent StoreNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Graph DBMS
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssurrealdb.comtypedb.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssurrealdb.com/­docstypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperEvent Store Limitedinformationpartners gmbhSurrealDB LtdVaticle
Initial release2012201520222016
Current release21.2, February 20211.0v1.5.0, May 20242.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++RustJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
WindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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EventStoreDBsearchxmlSurrealDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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