DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Linter vs. Oracle vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Linter vs. Oracle vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

RDBMS for high security requirements

Widely used RDBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

Primary database model

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#346	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

linter.ru

www.oracle.com/database

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Event Store Limited

relex.ru

Oracle

SAP

Initial release

2012

1990

1980

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2010

Current release

21.2, February 2021

23c, September 2023

10 R1, October 2018

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
macOS

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

MVCC

ACID

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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