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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. gStore vs. Interbase vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Oracle Rdb

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandA multi-model DBMS and application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#359  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comen.gstore.cnwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.html
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.intersystems.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.html
DeveloperCognitectEmbarcaderoInterSystemsOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Initial release20122016198419971984
Current release1.0.6735, June 20231.2, November 2023InterBase 2020, December 20192018.1.4, May 20207.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoBSDcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++C
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP Open VMS
Data schemeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyesdepending on used data modelFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACIDyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes
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 developmentnoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles

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