DBMS > Datomic vs. EsgynDB vs. Ingres vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EsgynDB vs. Ingres vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

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

Well established RDBMS

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
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Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	4.11
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

www.datomic.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

rocksdb.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.actian.com/ingres

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Cognitect

Esgyn

Actian Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2012

2015

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2013

2016

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

11.2, May 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Java Stored Procedures

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning

none

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

Ingres Replicator

yes

none

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

MVCC

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

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