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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. FatDB vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. FatDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperCognitectFatCloudAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2013201220122012
Current release1.0.7075, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojureC#JavaScript
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMWindowsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
C#JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infovia applicationsno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyes infovia applicationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsno

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