DBMS > Datomic vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoSpock vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EsgynDB vs. GeoSpock vs. RocksDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.datomic.com

www.esgyn.cn

geospock.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Cognitect

Esgyn

GeoSpock

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2015

2013

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.0, September 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++, Java

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

temporal, categorical

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Java Stored Procedures

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

Sharding

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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