DBMS > Datomic vs. Faircom DB vs. InfinityDB vs. Manticore Search vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Faircom DB vs. InfinityDB vs. Manticore Search vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#314	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

boilerbay.com

manticoresearch.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

manual.manticoresearch.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Cognitect

FairCom Corporation

Boiler Bay Inc.

Manticore Software

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

1979

2002

2017

2010

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

V13, July 2024

4.0

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

ANSI C, C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Fixed schema

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

Java

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

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

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

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, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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