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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. DolphinDB vs. GridGain vs. ObjectBox

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.dolphindb.comwww.gridgain.comobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperCognitectDolphinDB, IncGridGain Systems, Inc.ObjectBox Limited
Initial release2012201820072017
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023v2.00.4, January 2022GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infofree community version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++Java, C++, .NetC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesyes (replicated cache)online/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
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 developmentyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAdministrators, Users, GroupsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyes
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