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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. FileMaker vs. Riak TS vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	48.20
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Event Store Limited

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

1983

2015

2018

Current release

21.2, February 2021

19.4.1, November 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

yes, limited

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

PHP

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

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

in-memory journaling

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Role-based access control

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