DBMS > atoti vs. Datomic vs. Geode vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Datomic vs. Geode vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

atoti.io

www.datomic.com

geode.apache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

docs.datomic.com

geode.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

ActiveViam

Cognitect

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2002

1989

2017

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

1.1, February 2017

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

Java

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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