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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	103.86
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.datomic.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.datomic.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Cognitect

Alex Kashirin

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2012

2020

2018

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

0.5, April 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Clojure
Java

C++

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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 journaling

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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