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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. SAP HANA vs. YDB

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Name

Description

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

Google's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Event Store

Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	3.15
Rank	#95	Overall
	#14	Key-value stores
	#8	Wide column stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

cloud.google.com/bigtable/docs

help.sap.com/hana

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Event Store Limited

Google

SAP

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2015

2010

2019

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones

yes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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