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Name

Description

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

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

Widely used RDBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Event Store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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

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Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

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

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.memcached.org

www.oracle.com/database

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Event Store Limited

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Oracle

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2003

1980

1987

Current release

21.2, February 2021

1.6.25, March 2024

23c, September 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

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

yes

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'

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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