DBMS > Datomic vs. Hypertable vs. Netezza vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Hypertable vs. Netezza vs. RocksDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	10.18
Rank	#46	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.datomic.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Cognitect

Hypertable Inc.

IBM

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2009

2000

2013

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux

included in appliance

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor on file system level

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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