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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. DataFS vs. Datomic vs. FatDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

newdatabase.com

www.datomic.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.datomic.com

Developer

Mobiland AG

Cognitect

FatCloud

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2013

2018

2012

2009

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

1.0.6735, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

via applications

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

By using transaction functions

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Proprietary Sharding system

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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