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DBMS > Datomic vs. FatDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Interbase

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. FatDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Interbase

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from Borland
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperCognitectFatCloudGoogleEmbarcadero
Initial release2012201220081984
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC#C
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMWindowshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, details hereyes
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 infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like query language (GQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infovia applicationsusing Google App Engineyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger language
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyes infovia applicationsCallbacks using the Google Apps Engineyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factorMulti-source replication using PaxosInterbase Change Views
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny control
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 developmentnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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