DBMS > Datomic vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SAP HANA vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Hive vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. SAP HANA vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

hive.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

help.sap.com/hana

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Cognitect

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

IBM

SAP

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2017

2010

2013

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

2.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

SQLScript, R

JavaScript

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

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor

Active-active shard replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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 rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

simple password-based access control

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