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DBMS > Datomic vs. Hypertable vs. Interbase vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Hypertable vs. Interbase vs. Riak KV

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbase
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperCognitectHypertable Inc.EmbarcaderoOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2012200919842009
Current release1.0.6735, June 20230.9.8.11, March 2016InterBase 2020, December 20193.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++CErlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infoexport as XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageErlang
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor on file system levelInterbase Change Viewsselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Security

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