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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EventStoreDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Hypertable vs. InfluxDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityIndustrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent StoreDocument storeWide column storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.10
Rank#179  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.eventstore.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdevelopers.eventstore.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperCognitectEvent Store LimitedGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Hypertable Inc.
Initial release20122012201220092013
Current release1.0.6735, June 202321.2, February 20210.9.8.11, March 20162.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoNumeric data and Strings
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
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
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 developmentyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesnosimple rights management via user accounts
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DatomicEventStoreDBFirebase Realtime DatabaseHypertableInfluxDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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