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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Kingbase vs. OpenTenBase vs. SwayDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#361	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

swaydb.simer.au

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Cognitect

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Simer Plaha

Transwarp

Initial release

2012

1999

2018

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

V8.0, August 2021

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and Java

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

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

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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