DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OpenTSDB vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA

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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.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	14.29
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

opentsdb.net

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

firebase.google.com/docs/database

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Event Store Limited

Google

acquired by Google 2014

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

SAP

Initial release

2012

2011

2004

2010

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

limited functionality with using 'rules'

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

yes

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