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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. InfinityDB vs. Informix vs. STSdb vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Event Store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

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

Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	16.32
Rank	#35	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.eventstore.com

boilerbay.com

www.ibm.com/products/informix

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Event Store Limited

Boiler Bay Inc.

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

STS Soft SC

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2002

1984

2011

2023

Current release

21.2, February 2021

4.0

14.10.FC5, November 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++ and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

Access Control Lists

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