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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. OrientDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Event Store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

orientdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Event Store Limited

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

SAP

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2012

2010

2014

Current release

21.2, February 2021

3.2.29, March 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

SQLScript, R

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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