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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Transbase vs. Vertica

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Name

Description

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

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.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.48
Rank	#143	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	9.85
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Cognitect

Transaction Software GmbH

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2012

1987

2005

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free development license

commercial

Limited community edition free

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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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

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.

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.

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

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

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

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, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

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

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

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

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

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