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

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

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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.Apache 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 dataScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial 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
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.gbase.cnignite.apache.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherevitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comapacheignite.readme.io/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperCognitectGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software FoundationSiteWhereThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20122004201520102013
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cApache Ignite 2.615.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC, Java, PythonC++, Java, .NetJavaGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyespredefined schemeyes
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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yes
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 HBaseSharding
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 HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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 developmentyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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