DBMS > Datomic vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Vertica vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Vertica vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.datomic.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

www.vertica.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

vertica.com/documentation

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Cognitect

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2013

1992

2005

2001

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

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

yes

ACID

optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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