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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. JaguarDB vs. Rockset vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Event Store

Document store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

www.jaguardb.com

rockset.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Event Store Limited

Google

acquired by Google 2014

DataJaguar, Inc.

Rockset

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2015

2019

2011

Current release

21.2, February 2021

3.3 July 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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