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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EJDB vs. Galaxybase vs. NuoDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgalaxybase.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasesql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddoc.nuodb.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperCognitectSoftmotionsChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20122012201720132012
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCC and JavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-lessLinuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIin-process shared libraryBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnouser defined procedures and functionsJava, SQLno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes infoRelationships in graphsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes infoMVCC
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 developmentyesyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access controlStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersno

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