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DBMS > EventStoreDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset

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NameEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelEvent StoreRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#181  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score1.07
Rank#180  Overall
#31  Document stores
Websitewww.eventstore.comwww.postgres-xl.orgrocksdb.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationdevelopers.eventstore.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.rockset.com
DeveloperEvent Store LimitedFacebook, Inc.Rockset
Initial release20122014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20132019
Current release21.2, February 202110 R1, October 20189.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnodynamic typing
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Java API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoMVCCyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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