DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. GeoMesa vs. IBM Db2 vs. Lovefield vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Event Store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.geomesa.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2

google.github.io/lovefield

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Event Store Limited

CCRi and others

IBM

Google

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2012

2014

1983

host version

2014

1994

Current release

21.2, February 2021

5.0.0, May 2024

12.1, October 2016

2.1.12, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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