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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EJDB vs. EXASOL vs. GeoMesa vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	1.76
Rank	#139	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.exasol.com

www.geomesa.org

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.exasol.com/resources

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

Developer

Cognitect

Softmotions

Exasol

CCRi and others

Google

Initial release

2012

2000

2014

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Scala

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java
Lua
Python
R

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

depending on storage layer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

depending on storage layer

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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