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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. GBase vs. ITTIA vs. OpenTSDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#267	Overall
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Cognitect

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

ITTIA L.L.C.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2004

2007

2011

2012

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

8.7

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C, Java, Python

C and C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

HTTP API
Telnet API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Database file passwords

yes

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