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DBMS > Datomic vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Ignite vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. GBase vs. GeoSpock vs. Ignite vs. SiteWhere

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.gbase.cngeospock.comignite.apache.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comapacheignite.readme.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperCognitectGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.GeoSpockApache Software FoundationSiteWhere
Initial release2012200420152010
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.0, September 2019Apache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC, Java, PythonJava, JavascriptC++, Java, .NetJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes
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 developmentnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users can be defined per tableSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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