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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. GBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OpenTSDB vs. WakandaDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantopentsdb.netwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperCognitectGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsWakanda SAS
Initial release20122004201020112012
Current release1.0.7075, December 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC, Java, PythonErlangJavaC++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesyesnoyes
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 partitioningShardingSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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 developmentnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes

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