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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Datomic vs. OrigoDB vs. Rockset

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

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

docs.datomic.com

origodb.com/docs

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Altibase

Cognitect

Robert Friberg et al

Rockset

Initial release

1999

2012

2009

under the name LiveDB

2019

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Clojure
Java

.Net

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

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

Role based authorization

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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