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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. PostGIS vs. TerarkDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

postgis.net

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

postgis.net/documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Event Store Limited

ByteDance, originally Terark

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2005

2016

2012

Current release

21.2, February 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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