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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. STSdb vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#315	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#309	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores

Website

www.datomic.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Cognitect

IBM

STS Soft SC

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2017

2011

2001

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

2.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C#
Java

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

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

Active-active shard replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using 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 storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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