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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Ingres vs. Kingbase vs. SwayDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.kingbase.com.cn

swaydb.simer.au

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.actian.com/ingres

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Cognitect

Actian Corporation

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Simer Plaha

Transwarp

Initial release

2012

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1999

2018

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

11.2, May 2022

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and Java

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Ingres Replicator

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

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

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