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DBMS > Datomic vs. Ehcache vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Ehcache vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsnsdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperCognitectTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGHEAVY.AI, Inc.Microsoft
Initial release20122009201620162017
Current release1.0.6735, June 20233.10.0, March 20225.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaC++ and CUDAC++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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 indexesyesnonoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJCacheJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
JavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsnonoTransact SQLno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyes infoCache Event Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerSharding infoRound robinSharding, horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infoby using Terracotta ServerMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenoACIDno
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)yes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesUsing Apache Lucene
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 developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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