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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Heroic vs. Linter vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

RDBMS for high security requirements

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

hazelcast.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

linter.ru

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Event Store Limited

Hazelcast

Spotify

relex.ru

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2008

2014

1990

2018

Current release

21.2, February 2021

5.3.6, November 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

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 selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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