DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage 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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

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Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.geomesa.org

google.github.io/lovefield

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

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

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

Developer

Event Store Limited

CCRi and others

Google

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2012

2014

2012

1994

Current release

21.2, February 2021

5.0.0, May 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

none

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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