DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Hypertable vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Hypertable vs. Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. WakandaDB

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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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

google.github.io/lovefield

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

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

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Event Store Limited

Hypertable Inc.

Google

Microsoft

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2009

2014

2015

2012

Current release

21.2, February 2021

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.1.12, February 2017

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Linux
OS X
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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

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