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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Geode vs. NSDb vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

geode.apache.org/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Cognitect

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

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2002

2017

2014

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Linux
macOS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

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

Java
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Cache Event Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication

yes

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

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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