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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. H2 vs. HyperSQL vs. MonetDB vs. OushuDB

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Cognitect

Thomas Mueller

MonetDB BV

Oushu

Initial release

2012

2005

2001

2004

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java, SQL

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding via remote tables

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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