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DBMS > Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. Infobright vs. NSDb vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. Infobright vs. NSDb vs. VelocityDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.exasol.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbnsdb.iovelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.exasol.com/­resourcesnsdb.io/­Architecturevelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperCognitectExasolIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20122000200520172011
Current release1.0.6735, June 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCJava, ScalaC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
.Net
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Java
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
Scala
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsnonono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
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)yesyesUsing 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 developmentyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesBased on Windows Authentication

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