DBMS > Datomic vs. Dolt vs. DuckDB vs. RocksDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Dolt vs. DuckDB vs. RocksDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.datomic.com

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

duckdb.org

rocksdb.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.dolthub.com

duckdb.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Cognitect

DoltHub Inc

Facebook, Inc.

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2018

2013

2012

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

0.10, February 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

currently in alpha release

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

none

yes

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

simple authentication-based access control

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