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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. GBase vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. SiteWhere

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA multi-model DBMS and application serverM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.gbase.cnwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.intersystems.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperCognitectGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.EmbarcaderoInterSystemsSiteWhere
Initial release20122004198419972010
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cInterBase 2020, December 20192018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC, Java, PythonCJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesdepending on used data modelpredefined scheme
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.noyesno infoexport as XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesyesyes
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 partitioningnonenoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
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 controlnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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