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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. HEAVY.AI vs. HyperSQL vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

hsqldb.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.heavy.ai

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Cognitect

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2012

2016

2001

2014

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

5.10, January 2022

2.7.2, June 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++ and CUDA

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Java, SQL

Java Stored Procedures

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

Round robin

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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