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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. KeyDB vs. RavenDB

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Name

Description

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

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Event Store

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

www.eventstore.com

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

docs.keydb.dev

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Event Store Limited

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2012

2019

2010

Current release

21.2, February 2021

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

simple password-based access control and ACL

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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