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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EXASOL vs. PieCloudDB vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB

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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 cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Cognitect

Exasol

OpenPie

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2000

2014

2018

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.1, January 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

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

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

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

yes

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

Journaling Streams

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 journaling

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

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

Role-based access control

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