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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Infobright vs. OpenEdge

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Name

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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

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

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.heavy.ai

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Cognitect

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

Initial release

2012

2016

2005

1984

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

5.10, January 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

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

Round robin

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Users and groups

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