DBMS > Datomic vs. HBase vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. HBase vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Transbase

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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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

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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	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

hbase.apache.org

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Cognitect

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2008

2013

1992

1987

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

none

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

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

ACID

yes

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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