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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. DuckDB vs. GBase vs. RocksDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comduckdb.orgwww.gbase.cnrocksdb.orgsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comduckdb.org/­docsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikisql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperCognitectGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Facebook, Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20122018200420132012
Current release1.0.6735, June 20230.10, February 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c8.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++C, Java, PythonC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-lessLinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C#C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnouser defined functionsnono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioninghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
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 developmentyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyesnono

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