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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. EventStoreDB vs. H2

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.eventstore.com

www.h2database.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

developers.eventstore.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Event Store Limited

Thomas Mueller

Initial release

2015

2012

2005

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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