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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. InfinityDB vs. STSdb vs. XTDB vs. YottaDB

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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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

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

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

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

www.eventstore.com

boilerbay.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.xtdb.com/docs

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Event Store Limited

Boiler Bay Inc.

STS Soft SC

Juxt Ltd.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2002

2011

2019

2001

Current release

21.2, February 2021

4.0

4.0.8, September 2015

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API

HTTP REST
JDBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java

Clojure
Java

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, each node contains all data

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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 and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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