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

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 DBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelEvent StoreNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Graph DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssurrealdb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssurrealdb.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperEvent Store Limitedinformationpartners gmbhSurrealDB LtdJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2012201520222019
Current release21.2, February 20211.0v1.5.0, May 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++RustClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
WindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsDeno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
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, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesyes, based on authentication and database rules

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