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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. OpenTSDB vs. Teradata Aster

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBasePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelEvent StoreDocument storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.19
Rank#173  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.hawkular.orgopentsdb.net
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestorewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guideopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedGoogleCommunity supported by Red Hatcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsTeradata
Initial release20122017201420112005
Current release21.2, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTHTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud FunctionsnonoR packages
Triggersyes, with Cloud Functionsyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsUsing Cloud Dataflownonoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.nonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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