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

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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

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

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	0.09
Rank	#351	Overall
	#47	Document stores

Website

www.eventstore.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

google.github.io/lovefield

memgraph.com

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

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

kairosdb.github.io

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

memgraph.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Event Store Limited

Google

Memgraph Ltd

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

2017

2019

Current release

21.2, February 2021

1.2.2, November 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C and C++

Clojure

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

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

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

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, each node contains all data

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

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

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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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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