DBMS > Derby vs. etcd vs. EventStoreDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. etcd vs. EventStoreDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

A distributed reliable key-value store

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

db.apache.org/derby

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.eventstore.com

machbase.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

developers.eventstore.com

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Event Store Limited

Machbase

Initial release

1997

2012

2013

2009

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

3.4, August 2019

21.2, February 2021

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, watching key changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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