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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. LevelDB vs. NSDb

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbnsdb.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.datomic.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperAltibaseCognitectDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGoogle
Initial release19992012200820112017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.0.6735, June 20237.2.4, September 20121.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ClojureC++C++Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes: int, bigint, decimal, string
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP APIJDBCgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
C
C++
Java
PHP
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Java
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyes infoTransaction Functionsnonono
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infowith automatic compression on writesUsing Apache Lucene
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPno

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