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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Ehcache vs. SAP HANA vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.ehcache.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.ehcache.org/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Cognitect

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

SAP

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2009

2010

2013

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JCache

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

SQLScript, R

JavaScript

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

yes

simple password-based access control

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