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DBMS > Datomic vs. Infobright vs. KairosDB vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Infobright vs. KairosDB vs. NSDb

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbnsdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comkairosdb.github.ionsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperCognitectIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.
Initial release2012200520132017
Current release1.0.7075, December 20231.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCJavaJava, Scala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnonono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesUsing Apache Lucene
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 developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiessimple password-based access control

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