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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. GigaSpaces vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SpatiaLite

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.gigaspaces.comnsdb.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlnsdb.io/­Architecturewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCognitectGigaspaces TechnologiesOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Alessandro Furieri
Initial release20122000201719842008
Current release1.0.7075, December 202315.5, September 20207.4.1.1, 20215.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJava, C++, .NetJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
HP Open VMSserver-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanonono
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIGigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyesnono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyes, event driven architectureyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoyes, on a single nodeACID
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)yesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
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 developmentyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlno

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