DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Percona Server for MySQL

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Percona Server for MySQL

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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.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Primary database model

Event Store

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

Developer

Event Store Limited

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Percona

Initial release

2012

2014

2008

Current release

21.2, February 2021

4.0.5, February 2024

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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