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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. OrientDB vs. searchxml vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Event Store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

www.eventstore.com

orientdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

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

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Event Store Limited

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

informationpartners gmbh

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2010

2015

2001

Current release

21.2, February 2021

3.2.29, March 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

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

Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

optimistic locking

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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