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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Firebolt vs. HarperDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

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

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.firebolt.io

www.harperdb.io

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

docs.firebolt.io

docs.harperdb.io/docs

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

Developer

Event Store Limited

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

HarperDB

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2020

2017

2015

Current release

21.2, February 2021

3.1, August 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Node.js

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like data manipulation statements

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

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