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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.80
Rank	#206	Overall
	#98	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#180	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	3.80
Rank	#70	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Website

altibase.com

www.eventstore.com

cloud.google.com/datastore

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

developers.eventstore.com

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

Developer

Altibase

Event Store Limited

Google

Initial release

1999

2012

2008

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

21.2, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language (GQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

using Google App Engine

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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