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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. DuckDB vs. NSDb vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	5.61
Rank	#60	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

duckdb.org

nsdb.io

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

duckdb.org/docs

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Cognitect

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2018

2017

2009

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

1.0.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux
macOS

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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