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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. GridGain vs. Informix vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelEvent StoreKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
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Trend Chart
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score17.87
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.gridgain.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
kairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedGridGain Systems, Inc.IBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.Google
Initial release20122007198420132014
Current release21.2, February 2021GridGain 8.5.114.10.FC5, November 20201.2.2, November 20182.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, C++, .NetC, C++ and JavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesnono
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesnoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlssimple password-based access controlno

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