DBMS > Datomic vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hypertable vs. MySQL vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Hypertable vs. MySQL vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Widely used open source RDBMS

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

www.datomic.com

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.mysql.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Cognitect

Google

Hypertable Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Yandex

Initial release

2012

2008

2009

1995

2023

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, details here

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

with proprietary extensions

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

using Google App Engine

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication using Paxos

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access Control Lists

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