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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. KairosDB vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

opennms.github.io/newts

quasar.ai

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

doc.quasar.ai/master

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Cognitect

OpenNMS Group

quasardb

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2013

2014

2009

2012

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

3.14.1, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Java

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

by using LevelDB

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

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

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