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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. HBase vs. LevelDB vs. searchxml vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Event Store

Wide column store

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store

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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	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.eventstore.com

hbase.apache.org

github.com/google/leveldb

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Event Store Limited

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Google

informationpartners gmbh

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2008

2011

2015

2016

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

1.23, February 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Access rights for users and roles

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