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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. HBase vs. JanusGraph vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

hbase.apache.org

janusgraph.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.janusgraph.org

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Cognitect

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

SAP

Initial release

2012

2008

2017

2010

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

0.6.3, February 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

SQLScript, R

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

Sharding

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

yes

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