DBMS > Datomic vs. gStore vs. Hypertable vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. gStore vs. Hypertable vs. SQL.JS

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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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

en.gstore.cn

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Cognitect

Hypertable Inc.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2012

2016

2009

2012

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

1.2, November 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

C++ API
Thrift

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

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

none

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

except by serializing a db to a file

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, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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