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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. eXtremeDB vs. TempoIQ vs. TimesTen vs. Valentina Server

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.mcobject.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Cognitect

McObject

TempoIQ

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2012

2001

2012

1998

1999

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

8.2, 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

by defining events

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning / sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Multi-source replication
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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

simple authentication-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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