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DBMS > Datomic vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Speedb

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  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 CouchDBAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.speedb.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperCognitectCNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Speedb
Initial release2012201320102020
Current release1.0.7075, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaErlangC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
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
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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 developmentyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per databaseno
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DatomicH2GISIBM CloudantSpeedb
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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