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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Datomic vs. Hypertable vs. NSDb

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

www.datomic.com

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.datomic.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Mobiland AG

Cognitect

Hypertable Inc.

Initial release

2018

2012

2009

2017

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

1.0.6735, June 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, 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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Clojure
Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor on file system level

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

Windows-Profile

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