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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EJDB vs. OrientDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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)Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#297  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdborientdb.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCognitectSoftmotionsOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2012201220102022
Current release1.0.6735, June 20233.2.29, March 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCJavaRust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMserver-lessAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIin-process shared libraryTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsnoJava, Javascript
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
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 development
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableyes, based on authentication and database rules

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