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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Firebird vs. OrigoDB vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

origodb.com/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Cognitect

Firebird Foundation

Robert Friberg et al

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2012

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2009

under the name LiveDB

2006

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

5.0.0, January 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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 be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

PSQL

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

Write ahead log

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role based authorization

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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