DBMS > Datomic vs. Kinetica vs. SiteWhere vs. STSdb vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Kinetica vs. SiteWhere vs. STSdb 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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.kinetica.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.kinetica.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Cognitect

Kinetica

SiteWhere

STS Soft SC

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2012

2010

2011

2012

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

7.1, August 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C, C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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