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System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. Datomic vs. Elasticsearch vs. Faircom DB

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Name

Description

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

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

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.38
Rank	#276	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Website

brytlyt.io

www.datomic.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

docs.datomic.com

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

Developer

Brytlyt

Cognitect

Elastic

FairCom Corporation

Initial release

2016

2012

2010

1979

Current release

5.0, August 2023

1.0.7075, December 2023

8.6, January 2023

V12, November 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

Java, Clojure

Java

ANSI C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Clojure
Java

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

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

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

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