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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

www.datomic.com

machbase.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Cognitect

Machbase

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2012

2013

2012

1993

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

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

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

optimistic locking

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

volatile and lookup table

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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