DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Geode vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Geode vs. Graphite vs. HEAVY.AI vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.eventstore.com

geode.apache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

geode.apache.org/docs

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.heavy.ai

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Event Store Limited

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Chris Davis

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2002

2006

2016

2013

Current release

21.2, February 2021

1.1, February 2017

5.10, January 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Sockets

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Round robin

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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 per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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