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DBMS > Databend vs. Datomic vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant

System Properties Comparison Databend vs. Datomic vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant

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NameDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitySpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.datomic.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudant
Technical documentationdocs.databend.comdocs.datomic.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperDatabend LabsCognitectCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release2021201220132010
Current release1.0.59, April 20231.0.7075, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageRustJava, ClojureJavaErlang
Server operating systemshosted
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Clojure
Java
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesnoyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per database

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