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DBMS > Datomic vs. Dragonfly vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Dragonfly vs. RocksDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Websitewww.datomic.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
rocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperCognitectDragonflyDB team and community contributorsFacebook, Inc.Sybase, SAP
Initial release2012202320131993
Current release1.0.7180, July 20241.0, March 20239.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesscheme-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysnoyes
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 SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolC++ API
Java API
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
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
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsLuanoyes
TriggersBy using transaction functionspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
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 developmentyesyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlnoPassword-based authenticationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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