DBMS > Datomic vs. Google BigQuery vs. Linter vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Google BigQuery vs. Linter vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

RDBMS for high security requirements

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	52.67
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#368	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

linter.ru

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Cognitect

Google

relex.ru

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2012

2010

1990

2004

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes, in SQL, C, R

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

none

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

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 privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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