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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Pinecone vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Event Store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.pinecone.io

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Event Store Limited

Oracle

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2011

1984

2019

2000

Current release

21.2, February 2021

24.1, May 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

HP Open VMS

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

optional

yes

String, Number, Boolean

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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 DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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