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DBMS > Datomic vs. EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. SpatiaLite

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.heavy.aitechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCognitectEsgynHEAVY.AI, Inc.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release20122015201620142008
Current release1.0.7180, July 20245.10, January 20225.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++, JavaC++ and CUDAJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsJava Stored ProceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding infoRound robinnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
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 developmentnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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