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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. GBase vs. HBase vs. Riak TS

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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.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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

Primary database model

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Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.gbase.cn

hbase.apache.org

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

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

Developer

Event Store Limited

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2004

2008

2015

Current release

21.2, February 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.3.4, January 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

user defined functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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