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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Pinecone vs. Spark SQL vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transbase

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA managed, cloud-native vector databaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.pinecone.iospark.apache.org/­sqlwww.timescale.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.timescale.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperCognitectPinecone Systems, IncApache Software FoundationTimescaleTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122019201420171987
Current release1.0.6735, June 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.15.0, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureScalaCC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
PythonJava
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes, utilizing Spark Coreyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes
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 developmentnononono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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