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DBMS > Datomic vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JSqlDb

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. JSqlDb

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.JSqlDB 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 durabilityDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA multi-model DBMS and application serverJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives
Primary database modelRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachejsqldb.org (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.intersystems.com
DeveloperCognitectIBMEmbarcaderoInterSystemsKonrad von Backstrom
Initial release20122017198419972018
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232.0InterBase 2020, December 20192018.1.4, May 20200.8, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC and C++C
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesdepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonono infoexport as XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesfunctions in JavaScript
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersActive-active shard replicationInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyesyes infousing RocksDB
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 developmentyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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