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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Derby vs. InfinityDB vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.71
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comdb.apache.org/­derbyboilerbay.comquasar.aiwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCognitectApache Software FoundationBoiler Bay Inc.quasardbAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20121997200220092008
Current release1.0.6735, June 202310.17.1.0, November 20234.03.14.1, January 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infointeger and binaryyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBCAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
JavaJava.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsJava Stored Proceduresnonono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesnoyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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