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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EJDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. IRONdb vs. Lovefield

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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)

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

greptime.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

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

docs.greptime.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

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

Developer

Cognitect

Softmotions

Greptime Inc.

Circonus LLC.

Google

Initial release

2012

2022

2017

2014

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Rust

C and C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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 (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

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

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Python

yes, in Lua

Triggers

By using transaction functions

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

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

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