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DBMS > Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. Firebolt vs. NSDb vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. Firebolt vs. NSDb vs. STSdb

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.exasol.comwww.firebolt.ionsdb.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.firebolt.ionsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperCognitectExasolFirebolt Analytics Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20122000202020172011
Current release1.0.6735, June 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJava, ScalaC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Java
Lua
Python
R
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsnonono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersdepending on storage layernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesUsing Apache Luceneyes
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 developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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