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DBMS > Datomic vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Hypertable vs. IRONdb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb 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 durabilityCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score8.96
Rank#48  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#78  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperCognitectGoogleHypertable Inc.Circonus LLC.SAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20122017200920171992
Current release1.0.6735, June 20230.9.8.11, March 2016V0.10.20, January 201817, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Thrift
HTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnoyes, in Luayes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyes, with Cloud Functionsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor on file system levelconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflowyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnonoACID
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. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.nonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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