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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Faircom EDGE vs. SAP HANA vs. Solr

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Name

Description

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

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

www.datomic.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

solr.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

help.sap.com/hana

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Cognitect

FairCom Corporation

SAP

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

1979

2010

2006

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

V3, October 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

SQLScript, R

Java plugins

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

yes

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