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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Datomic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

cachelot.io

www.datomic.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Cognitect

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2015

2012

2010

2011

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Clojure

Erlang

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

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

Sharding

none

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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