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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. FatDB vs. GridDB vs. SwayDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.datomic.comgriddb.netswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.griddb.net
DeveloperCognitectFatCloudToshiba CorporationSimer Plaha
Initial release2012201220132018
Current release1.0.7075, December 20235.1, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC#C++Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMWindowsLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampno
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infovia applicationsnono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyes infovia applicationsyesno
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 factorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID at container levelAtomic execution of operations
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 developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno
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DatomicFatDBGridDBSwayDB
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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