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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. DuckDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Hazelcast vs. Rockset

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA widely adopted in-memory data gridA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.datomic.comduckdb.orggeospock.comhazelcast.comrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comduckdb.org/­docshazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperCognitectGeoSpockHazelcastRockset
Initial release2012201820082019
Current release1.0.6735, June 20230.10, February 20242.0, September 20195.3.6, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++Java, JavascriptJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-lesshostedAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesdynamic typing
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.nononoyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBCJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
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
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnonoyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnonoyes infoEventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneAutomatic shardingShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneyes infoReplicated Mapyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes
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
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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