DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Geode vs. Interbase vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Geode vs. Interbase vs. Snowflake

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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

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Event Store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.51
Rank	#147	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

geode.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Event Store Limited

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

Embarcadero

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2002

1984

2014

Current release

21.2, February 2021

1.1, February 2017

InterBase 2020, December 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Interbase Change Views

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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