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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. LevelDB vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Event Store

Key-value store

RDF store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.eventstore.com

github.com/google/leveldb

rdf4j.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Event Store Limited

Google

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

informationpartners gmbh

8Kdata

Initial release

2012

2011

2004

2015

2016

Current release

21.2, February 2021

1.23, February 2021

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Java
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Access rights for users and roles

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