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DBMS > Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. Hive vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.geomesa.orghive.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperCognitectCCRi and othersApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMicrosoft
Initial release2012201420122016
Current release1.0.6735, June 20234.0.5, February 20243.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceTransact SQL
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersdepending on storage layerShardingSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersdepending on storage layerselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
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 developmentdepending on storage layer
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes

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