DBMS > Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NSDb vs. SQream DB vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. NSDb vs. SQream DB vs. Trino

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Name

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

nsdb.io

sqream.com

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.sqream.com

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Cognitect

Microsoft

SQream Technologies

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2014

2017

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java, Scala

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

all fields are automatically indexed

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Java
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

JavaScript

user defined functions in Python

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

By using transaction functions

JavaScript

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

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

SQL standard access control

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Specific characteristics

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