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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. GBase vs. KeyDB vs. RavenDB vs. Transbase

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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.

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.gbase.cn

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

ravendb.net

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

docs.keydb.dev

ravendb.net/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Event Store Limited

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Hibernating Rhinos

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2004

2019

2010

1987

Current release

21.2, February 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

5.4, July 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Lua

yes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

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
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

simple password-based access control and ACL

Authorization levels configured per client per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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