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DBMS > BoltDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service
Primary database modelKey-value storeEvent StoreSpatial DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score29.04
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.eventstore.comwww.geomesa.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-db
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-db
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedCCRi and othersMicrosoft
Initial release2013201220142014
Current release21.2, February 20214.0.5, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoScala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoJSON types
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by default
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsDocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScript
TriggersnonoJavaScript
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedepending on storage layerSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonedepending on storage layeryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyeswith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonedepending on storage layerBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition
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.nodepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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