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DBMS > BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. FatDB vs. Tigris vs. Yaacomo

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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
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
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.A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#369  Overall
#51  Document stores
#55  Key-value stores
#24  Search engines
#38  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comwww.tigrisdata.comyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperCognitectFatCloudTigris Data, Inc.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20132012201220222009
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojureC#
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMWindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono infoVia inetgration in SQL Servernoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoClojure
Java
C#Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infovia applicationsno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsyes infovia applicationsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factoryesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACIDACID
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, using FoundationDByes
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 applicationsAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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