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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. GBase vs. Kinetica vs. RDF4J vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

docs.kinetica.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Event Store Limited

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Kinetica

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

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2004

2012

2004

2016

Current release

21.2, February 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights for users and roles

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