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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Geode vs. Interbase vs. STSdb

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.datomic.comgeode.apache.orgwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
DeveloperCognitectOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.EmbarcaderoSTS Soft SC
Initial release2012200219842011
Current release1.0.7075, December 20231.1, February 2017InterBase 2020, December 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaCC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 infoexport as XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyes infoCache Event Listenersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replicationInterbase Change Viewsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
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 developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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