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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Ignite vs. JSqlDb vs. PostGIS vs. SingleStore

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Event Store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

postgis.net/documentation

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Event Store Limited

Apache Software Foundation

Konrad von Backstrom

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2012

2015

2018

2005

2013

Current release

21.2, February 2021

Apache Ignite 2.6

0.8, December 2018

3.4.2, February 2024

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Licensing and pricing models

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