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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. H2 vs. HyperSQL vs. WakandaDB vs. YottaDB

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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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

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	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Cognitect

Thomas Mueller

Wakanda SAS

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2005

2001

2012

2001

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

2.7.2, June 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

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

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

JavaScript

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Java, SQL

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

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

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

optimistic locking

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

yes

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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