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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Datomic vs. Graph Engine vs. OrigoDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.56
Rank	#241	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

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

Website

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.datomic.com

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

origodb.com/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Cognitect

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2015

2012

2010

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

.NET and C

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

.NET

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

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

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

Role based authorization

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