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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EventStoreDB vs. Interbase vs. Oracle Coherence

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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.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

www.datomic.com

www.eventstore.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

developers.eventstore.com

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Cognitect

Event Store Limited

Embarcadero

Oracle

Initial release

2012

1984

2007

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

21.2, February 2021

InterBase 2020, December 2019

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Interbase Change Views

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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