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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kdb vs. OrientDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitySpatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBHigh performance Time Series DBMSMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantkx.comorientdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantcode.kx.comwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperCognitectCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release2012201320102000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032010
Current release1.0.6735, June 20233.6, May 20183.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaErlangqJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsJava, Javascript
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesyesyes infowith viewsHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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 developmentyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per databaserights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable
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DatomicH2GISIBM CloudantKdbOrientDB
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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