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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTSDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTSDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelEvent StoreDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantopentsdb.netwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2012201020112014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release21.2, February 202110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnouser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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