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DBMS > Datomic vs. Galaxybase vs. Ingres vs. Prometheus vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Galaxybase vs. Ingres vs. Prometheus vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformWell established RDBMSOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comgalaxybase.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresprometheus.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.actian.com/­ingresprometheus.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperCognitectChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Actian CorporationSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release201220171974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20151992
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023Nov 20, November 202111.2, May 202217, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC and JavaCGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemayesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno infoImport of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Go
Java
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined procedures and functionsyesnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersIngres Replicatoryes infoby FederationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
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 developmentyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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