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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#252	Overall
	#115	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Cognitect

CNRS

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Splice Machine

Initial release

2012

2013

2010

2014

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

based on H2

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Java

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

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

based on H2

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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