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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. FatDB vs. RavenDB vs. Spark SQL vs. ToroDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Event Store

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

ravendb.net

spark.apache.org/sql

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

ravendb.net/docs

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Event Store Limited

FatCloud

Hibernating Rhinos

Apache Software Foundation

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2010

2014

2016

Current release

21.2, February 2021

5.4, July 2022

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language (RQL)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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.

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Authorization levels configured per client per database

Access rights for users and roles

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