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DBMS > Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerminusDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseThe SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score32.67
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comopentsdb.netwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCognitectDrizzle project, originally started by Brian Akercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSAP, SybaseDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20122008201119872018
Current release1.0.7180, July 20247.2.4, September 201216.011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++JavaC and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCHTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C
C++
Java
PHP
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsnonoJava and Transact-SQLyes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
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 developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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