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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Lovefield vs. Memcached vs. Yaacomo vs. YottaDB

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.eventstore.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.memcached.org

yaacomo.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

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

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Event Store Limited

Google

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Q2WEB GmbH

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2014

2003

2009

2001

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

1.6.27, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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 query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

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

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, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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