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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EventStoreDB vs. Heroic vs. LokiJS 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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.eventstore.com

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

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

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

developers.eventstore.com

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Cognitect

Event Store Limited

Spotify

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

21.2, February 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

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

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

View functions in JavaScript

PL/SQL

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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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