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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. SingleStore vs. Transbase

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.51
Rank#86  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comobjectbox.iowww.progress.com/­openedgewww.singlestore.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.objectbox.iodocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestdocs.singlestore.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperCognitectObjectBox LimitedProgress Software CorporationSingleStore Inc.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122017198420131987
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023OpenEdge 12.2, March 20208.5, January 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC and C++C++, GoC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyesyesyes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesUsers and groupsFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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