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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Elasticsearch vs. GBase vs. OpenTSDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.gbase.cnopentsdb.netwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperCognitectElasticGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsWakanda SAS
Initial release20122010200420112012
Current release1.0.7075, December 20238.6, January 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaC, Java, PythonJavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyesuser defined functionsnoyes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
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)yesyesyesyes
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 developmentMemcached and Redis integrationnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnoyes

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