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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Greenplum vs. OrientDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comgreenplum.orgorientdb.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.greenplum.orgwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCognitectPivotal Software Inc.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2012200520102008
Current release1.0.6735, June 20237.0.0, September 20233.2.29, March 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)server-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language, no joinsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsyesJava, Javascriptno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesHooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes inforelationship in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
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 controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableno

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