DBMS > Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. IBM Db2 vs. Snowflake vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. IBM Db2 vs. Snowflake 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

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

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

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

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

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.exasol.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

www.snowflake.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.exasol.com/resources

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Cognitect

Exasol

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2000

1983

host version

2014

2012

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

12.1, October 2016

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free version is available

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

none

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

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

yes

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