DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ObjectBox vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. MarkLogic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ObjectBox vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Event Store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.marklogic.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

objectbox.io

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

docs.marklogic.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Event Store Limited

MarkLogic Corp.

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2012

2001

2014

2017

2009

Current release

21.2, February 2021

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Proprietary native API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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