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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Dolt vs. FatDB vs. LevelDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the 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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

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	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Website

www.datomic.com

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

github.com/google/leveldb

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.dolthub.com

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

Developer

Cognitect

DoltHub Inc

FatCloud

Google

Initial release

2012

2018

2012

2011

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

Via inetgration in SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

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++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

via applications

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

via applications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

none

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.

selectable replication factor

none

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

with automatic compression on writes

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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