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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. GBase vs. JanusGraph vs. OpenSearch vs. TimesTen

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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.

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.gbase.cn

janusgraph.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.janusgraph.org

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Cognitect

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Amazon Web Services

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2004

2017

2021

1998

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

0.6.3, February 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Clojure
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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