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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Datomic vs. Faircom DB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.20
Rank	#175	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.24
Rank	#311	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#253	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

www.datomic.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

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

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.datomic.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Cognitect

FairCom Corporation

Percona

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2015

2012

1979

2015

1998

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

1.0.6735, June 2023

V12, November 2020

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

proprietary protocol using JSON

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

JavaScript

PL/SQL

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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