DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. GreptimeDB vs. LeanXcale

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. GBase vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. GreptimeDB vs. LeanXcale

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Primary database model

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	2.97
Rank	#92	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#286	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#130	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.gbase.cn

cloud.google.com/bigtable

greptime.com

www.leanxcale.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

docs.greptime.com

Developer

Event Store Limited

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Greptime Inc.

LeanXcale

Initial release

2012

2004

2015

2022

2015

Current release

21.2, February 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Simple rights management via user accounts

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