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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. jBASE vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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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.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#120	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	1.43
Rank	#160	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.exasol.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Cognitect

Exasol

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2000

1991

2016

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

5.7

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

yes

Transact SQL

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

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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