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DBMS > Datomic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. NSDb vs. Sadas Engine vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. NSDb vs. Sadas Engine vs. Teradata Aster

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisnsdb.iowww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsnsdb.io/­Architecturewww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperCognitectInterSystemsSADAS s.r.l.Teradata
Initial release20122018201720062005
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232023.3, June 20238.0
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJava, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
macOS
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes
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.noyesnonoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsyesnonoR packages
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationnoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
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)yesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
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 developmentyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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