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DBMS > Datomic vs. Graphite vs. Kingbase vs. MonetDB vs. RavenDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Graphite vs. Kingbase vs. MonetDB vs. RavenDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.datomic.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.kingbase.com.cnwww.monetdb.orgravendb.net
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.monetdb.org/­Documentationravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperCognitectChris DavisBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.MonetDB BVHibernating Rhinos
Initial release20122006199920042010
Current release1.0.7075, December 2023V8.0, August 2021Dec2023 (11.49), December 20235.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojurePythonC and JavaCC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyesno
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnouser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, Ryes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneyesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction available
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
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 development
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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