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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. Datomic vs. Ingres vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

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

Well established RDBMS

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#14	Vector DBMS

Website

arcadedb.com

www.datomic.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.datomic.com

docs.actian.com/ingres

Developer

Arcade Data

Cognitect

Actian Corporation

Initial release

2021

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2023

Current release

September 2021

1.0.7075, December 2023

11.2, May 2022

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java

Clojure
Java

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Ingres Replicator

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

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

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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