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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. GBase vs. HBase vs. Ignite vs. InfinityDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.gbase.cnhbase.apache.orgignite.apache.orgboilerbay.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manual
DeveloperCognitectGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetApache Software FoundationBoiler Bay Inc.
Initial release20122004200820152002
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.3.4, January 2021Apache Ignite 2.64.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC, Java, PythonJavaC++, Java, .NetJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgrade
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays
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 indexesyesyesnoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javayes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesyesyes (cache interceptors and events)no
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 partitioningShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes (replicated cache)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads
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 developmentyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsno

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