DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. RDF4J vs. SAP HANA vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

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

Developer

Event Store Limited

Microsoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

SAP

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2012

2004

2010

2018

Current release

21.2, February 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
ODBC

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

Supported programming languages

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

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

none

yes

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

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