DBMS > Datomic vs. EventStoreDB vs. EXASOL vs. Manticore Search vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EventStoreDB vs. EXASOL vs. Manticore Search vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

developers.eventstore.com

www.exasol.com/resources

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Cognitect

Event Store Limited

Exasol

Manticore Software

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2000

2017

2014

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

21.2, February 2021

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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