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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Galaxybase vs. KeyDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#229	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

galaxybase.com

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

docs.keydb.dev

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Event Store Limited

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2017

2019

2014

Current release

21.2, February 2021

Nov 20, November 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

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

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control and ACL

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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