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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb vs. PlanetScale vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/planetscale.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedplanetscale.com/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperCognitectIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Circonus LLC.PlanetScaleSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20122010201720201992
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023V0.10.20, January 201817, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureErlangC and C++Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in Luayes infoproprietary syntaxyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes
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 developmentnonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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