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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Hazelcast vs. Lovefield vs. MaxDB

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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Event Store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

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Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

hazelcast.com

google.github.io/lovefield

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Event Store Limited

Hazelcast

Google

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2012

2008

2014

1984

Current release

21.2, February 2021

5.3.6, November 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

none

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 selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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