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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Ignite vs. openGemini vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

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.

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Event Store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

ignite.apache.org

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

docs.opengemini.org/guide

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Event Store Limited

Apache Software Foundation

Huawei and openGemini community

Timescale

Initial release

2012

2015

2022

2017

Current release

21.2, February 2021

Apache Ignite 2.6

1.1, July 2023

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

SQL-like query language

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

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

Administrators and common users accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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