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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EJDB vs. Newts vs. TimesTen

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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)

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.30
Rank	#294	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

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

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Cognitect

Softmotions

OpenNMS Group

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2012

2014

1998

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
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

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

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

Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication
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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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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