DBMS > Datomic vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. NSDb vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. NSDb vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Application development environment with integrated database management system

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

nsdb.io

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Cognitect

Kyligence, Inc.

Progress Software Corporation

SAP

Initial release

2012

2016

2017

1984

2010

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java
Scala

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

SQLScript, R

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

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

Users and groups

yes

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