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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. HBase vs. InfinityDB vs. STSdb vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Event Store

Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.eventstore.com

hbase.apache.org

boilerbay.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Event Store Limited

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Boiler Bay Inc.

STS Soft SC

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2008

2002

2011

2001

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

4.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

.NET Client API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Java

C#
Java

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

optimistic locking

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 Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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