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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Graphite vs. InfinityDB vs. STSdb vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Graphite vs. InfinityDB vs. STSdb vs. Vertica

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelEvent StoreTime Series DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.07
Rank#181  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score9.62
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webboilerbay.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.vertica.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comgraphite.readthedocs.ioboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualvertica.com/­documentation
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedChris DavisBoiler Bay Inc.STS Soft SCOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release20122006200220112005
Current release21.2, February 20214.04.0.8, September 201512.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC#C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMWindowsLinux
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaC#
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersnononoyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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