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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. DuckDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SiriDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Open Source Time Series DBMS

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	5.61
Rank	#60	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

duckdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

siridb.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

duckdb.org/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.siridb.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Cognitect

SAP, formerly Sybase

Cesbit

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2018

1994

2017

2012

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

1.0.0, June 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

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

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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