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Datomic System Properties

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Name

Description

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#142	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

Developer

Cognitect

Initial release

2012

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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)

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

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