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DBMS > Datomic vs. H2GIS vs. Informix vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. H2GIS vs. Informix vs. SpaceTime

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitySpatial extension of H2A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
Relational DBMS
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score17.12
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homeinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
DeveloperCognitectCNRSIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.Mireo
Initial release2012201319842020
Current release1.0.7075, December 202314.10.FC5, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaC, C++ and JavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Java.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infobased on H2yesno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
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
Real-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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 developmentyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on H2Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsyes

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