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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. DolphinDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

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

DolphinDB 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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

www.datomic.com

www.dolphindb.com

hsqldb.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Cognitect

DolphinDB, Inc

Percona

Initial release

2012

2018

2001

2015

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

2.7.2, June 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Java, SQL

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

yes

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)

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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