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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. Kingbase vs. SwayDB vs. Yanza

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.datomic.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablewww.kingbase.com.cnswaydb.simer.auyanza.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docs
DeveloperCognitectGoogleBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Simer PlahaYanza
Initial release20122015199920182015
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC and JavaScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnono
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnouser defined functionsnono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyesnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsACIDAtomic execution of operationsno
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)yesyesyesyes
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 developmentnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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