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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. GBase vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTenBase

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTenBase  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.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.gbase.cnhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­OpenTenBase/­OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/­en
DeveloperCognitectGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent
Initial release2012200420122010
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.1.3, April 20222.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoBSD-3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC, Java, PythonJavaErlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
Go
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnoyesyes
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 partitioningShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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 developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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