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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. DolphinDB vs. H2GIS vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Spatial extension of H2

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	2.72
Rank	#100	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS
	#5	Vector DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.dolphindb.com

www.h2gis.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Cognitect

DolphinDB, Inc

CNRS

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2018

2013

1992

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

v2.00.4, January 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

based on H2

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

yes

based on H2

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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