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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. RocksDB

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

In-memory caching system

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Website

cachelot.io

www.datomic.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Cognitect

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2012

2008

2013

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

7.2.4, September 2012

9.4.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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