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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. GeoSpock vs. Transbase

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.48
Rank	#143	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#155	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

geospock.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Cognitect

GeoSpock

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

1987

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

2.0, September 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java, Javascript

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

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

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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