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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. Memgraph

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

google.github.io/lovefield

manticoresearch.com

memgraph.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

manual.manticoresearch.com

memgraph.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Event Store Limited

Google

Manticore Software

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

2017

Current release

21.2, February 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Free license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free and schema-optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Users, roles and permissions

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