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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. HBase vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. SiteWhere

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comhbase.apache.orggoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmanticoresearch.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmanual.manticoresearch.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperCognitectApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetGoogleManticore SoftwareSiteWhere
Initial release20122008201420172010
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232.3.4, January 20212.1.12, February 20176.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesFixed schemapredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nononoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infoCoprocessors in Javanouser defined functions
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
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 developmentyesyes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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