DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield vs. Memgraph vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. KairosDB vs. Lovefield vs. Memgraph vs. Snowflake

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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

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	1.14
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	3.00
Rank	#102	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

google.github.io/lovefield

memgraph.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

kairosdb.github.io

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

memgraph.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

Event Store Limited

Google

Memgraph Ltd

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

2017

2014

Current release

21.2, February 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

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

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

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

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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