DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

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

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Event Store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#250	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#345	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#165	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

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

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Event Store Limited

Microsoft

Percona

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2012

2014

2015

2009

2018

Current release

21.2, February 2021

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

TinkerPop 3

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

none

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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