DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. GeoSpock vs. MySQL vs. RocksDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. GeoSpock vs. MySQL vs. RocksDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Widely used open source RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

geospock.com

www.mysql.com

rocksdb.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Event Store Limited

GeoSpock

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Facebook, Inc.

Mireo

Initial release

2012

1995

2013

2020

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.0, September 2019

8.4.0, April 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

with proprietary extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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