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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. HyperSQL vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelEvent StoreRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.14
Rank#181  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score3.90
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#290  Overall
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comhsqldb.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlkairosdb.github.iogithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedGoogle
Initial release2012200120132014
Current release21.2, February 20212.7.2, June 20231.2.2, November 20182.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, SQLnono
TriggersyesnoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, 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.yesnoyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlno

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