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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. GBase vs. HBase vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Cognitect

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2012

2004

2008

2013

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.3.4, January 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C, Java, Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

yes

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

yes

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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