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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. GridDB vs. H2 vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. GridDB vs. H2 vs. SiteWhere

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelEvent StoreTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#181  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score1.91
Rank#123  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score7.57
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#347  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comgriddb.netwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comdocs.griddb.netwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedToshiba CorporationThomas MuellerSiteWhere
Initial release2012201320052010
Current release21.2, February 20215.1, August 20222.2.220, July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyes
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 indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID at container levelACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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