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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Datomic vs. NSDb vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#354	Overall
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

newdatabase.com

www.datomic.com

nsdb.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.datomic.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Mobiland AG

Cognitect

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2018

2012

2017

2020

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

1.0.6735, June 2023

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Clojure
Java

Java
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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)

Using Apache Lucene

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

Windows-Profile

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