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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Elasticsearch vs. GigaSpaces vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  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 metricHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series 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
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.gigaspaces.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmldocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.com
DeveloperCognitectElasticGigaspaces TechnologiesHEAVY.AI, Inc.Kinetica
Initial release20122010200020162012
Current release1.0.7075, December 20238.6, January 202315.5, September 20205.10, January 20227.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaJava, C++, .NetC++ and CUDAC, C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-99 for query and DML statementsyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyesyesnouser defined functions
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes, event driven architecturenoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Multi-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectoryes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
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 Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
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 integrationyesyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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