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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Heroic vs. Sphinx vs. XTDB

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelEvent StoreDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicsphinxsearch.com/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedGigaspaces TechnologiesSpotifySphinx Technologies Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20122000201420012019
Current release21.2, February 202115.5, September 20203.5.1, February 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetJavaC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes, extensible-data-notation format
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-99 for query and DML statementsnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyes, event driven architecturenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
yesnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlno

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