DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Kinetica vs. SAP HANA vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Kinetica vs. SAP HANA vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.kinetica.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

docs.kinetica.com

help.sap.com/hana

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Event Store Limited

Kinetica

SAP

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2010

2001

Current release

21.2, February 2021

7.1, August 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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