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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Lovefield vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

google.github.io/lovefield

terminusdb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

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

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Event Store Limited

Google

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

2014

2018

2011

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

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

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 journaling

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

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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