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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. LeanXcale vs. STSdb

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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.

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.datomic.com

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

Developer

Cognitect

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

LeanXcale

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2008

2015

2011

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

through Apache Derby

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

C
Java
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

none

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

none

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

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

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