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DBMS > Datomic vs. Graphite vs. Kingbase vs. Sequoiadb vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Graphite vs. Kingbase vs. Sequoiadb vs. SwayDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.datomic.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.kingbase.com.cnwww.sequoiadb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperCognitectChris DavisBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Sequoiadb Ltd.Simer Plaha
Initial release20122006199920132018
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojurePythonC and JavaC++Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexno
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 indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnouser defined functionsJavaScriptno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyesnono
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 partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDDocument is locked during a transactionAtomic execution of operations
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 developmentnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlno

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