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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. GeoSpock vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. InfluxDB vs. Infobright

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitySpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comgeospock.comcloud.google.com/­datastorewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdb
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperCognitectGeoSpockGoogleIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release2012200820132005
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232.0, September 20192.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJava, JavascriptGoC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedhostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, details hereNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalyesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used instead
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language (GQL)SQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnousing Google App Enginenono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersAutomatic shardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication using Paxosselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 developmentnonoyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)simple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities
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DatomicGeoSpockGoogle Cloud DatastoreInfluxDBInfobright
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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