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System Properties Comparison Databend vs. Datomic vs. Infobright vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexity

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.34
Rank	#283	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/datafuselabs/databend
www.databend.com

www.datomic.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.databend.com

docs.datomic.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Databend Labs

Cognitect

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Initial release

2021

2012

2005

2017

Current release

1.0.59, April 2023

1.0.7075, December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Java, Clojure

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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