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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. GeoMesa vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.geomesa.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Cognitect

CCRi and others

SAP

Initial release

2012

2014

2010

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

depending on storage layer

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

depending on storage layer

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

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