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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
	#62	Key-value stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

www.datomic.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Cognitect

Microsoft

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2015

2012

2016

2008

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Transact 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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

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

yes

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