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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. EsgynDB vs. OpenQM

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

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Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

Developer

Cognitect

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Esgyn

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2012

2008

2015

1993

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

7.2.4, September 2012

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

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

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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