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DBMS > Datomic vs. Dragonfly vs. EJDB vs. gStore vs. Lovefield

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Dragonfly vs. EJDB vs. gStore vs. Lovefield

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisongStore  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.13
Rank#331  Overall
#46  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#367  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#18  RDF stores
Score0.22
Rank#306  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
github.com/­Softmotions/­ejdben.gstore.cngoogle.github.io/­lovefield
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mden.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.md
DeveloperCognitectDragonflyDB team and community contributorsSoftmotionsGoogle
Initial release20122023201220162014
Current release1.0.7180, July 20241.0, March 20231.2, November 20232.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++CC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxserver-lessLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari
Data schemeyesscheme-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder pattern
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protocolin-process shared libraryHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsLuanoyesno
TriggersBy using transaction functionspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database
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 developmentyesnoyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationnoUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedno

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