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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Cachelot.io vs. Datomic vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

In-memory caching system

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Website

altibase.com

cachelot.io

www.datomic.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

docs.datomic.com

origodb.com/docs

Developer

Altibase

Cognitect

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

1999

2015

2012

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.0.7180, July 2024

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

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

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Memcached protocol

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

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

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

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