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

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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.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.dolphindb.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Cognitect

DolphinDB, Inc

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2012

2018

2014

2017

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

JavaScript API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

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

JavaScript

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

View functions in 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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

yes

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