DBMS > Datomic vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sequoiadb vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Sequoiadb vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

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

www.sequoiadb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Cognitect

SAP

formerly Sybase

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Mireo

Initial release

2012

1992

2013

2020

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

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

JavaScript

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

none

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

simple password-based access control

yes

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