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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. InfinityDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. SiteWhere

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comboilerbay.commanticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperCognitectBoiler Bay Inc.Manticore SoftwareSiteWhere
Initial release2012200220172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2010
Current release1.0.7075, December 20234.06.0, February 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaC++CJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeFixed schemayespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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.nonoCan index from XMLyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
JavaElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnouser defined functionsuser defined functions
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
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 developmentnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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