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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. HBase vs. SpaceTime vs. SpatiaLite

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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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

hbase.apache.org

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Cognitect

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Mireo

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

2008

2020

2008

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

server-less

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

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

Fixed-grid hypercubes

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

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

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)

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

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

yes

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