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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Kdb vs. Oracle vs. RethinkDB vs. Tibero

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Name

Description

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

High performance Time Series DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

kx.com

www.oracle.com/database

rethinkdb.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

code.kx.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

rethinkdb.com/docs

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Cognitect

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Oracle

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2012

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

1980

2009

2003

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

3.6, May 2018

23c, September 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

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 C++

C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

with views

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

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

isolation level can be parameterized

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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