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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EJDB vs. JSqlDb vs. SAP IQ

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Name

JSqlDB 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)

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#331	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Cognitect

Softmotions

Konrad von Backstrom

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2012

2018

1994

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

0.8, December 2018

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

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

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

functions in JavaScript

yes

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

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

using RocksDB

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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