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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb vs. openGauss

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Name

Description

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#183	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

Developer

Cognitect

Microsoft

Huawei and openGauss community

Initial release

2012

2016

2017

2019

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

3.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Java, Scala

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL 2011

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C#
Java
PHP

Java
Scala

C
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Transact SQL

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, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

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

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