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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EsgynDB vs. H2GIS vs. LMDB vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Spatial extension of H2

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#125	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.h2gis.org

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.lmdb.tech/doc

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Cognitect

Esgyn

CNRS

Symas

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2012

2015

2013

2011

2006

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

0.9.32, January 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++, Java

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes

based on H2

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

based on H2

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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