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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Hypertable vs. KairosDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Event Store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#238	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

kairosdb.github.io

docs.objectbox.io

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Event Store Limited

Hypertable Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2009

2013

2017

1999

Current release

21.2, February 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

1.2.2, November 2018

4.0 (May 2024)

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Proprietary native API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

simple password-based access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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