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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. H2GIS vs. NSDb vs. Sequoiadb

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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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Cognitect

CNRS

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2013

2017

2013

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java

Java
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

based on H2

JavaScript

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

based on H2

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

simple password-based access control

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