DBMS > Datomic vs. EventStoreDB vs. RocksDB vs. Transbase vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. EventStoreDB vs. RocksDB vs. Transbase vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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.

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.eventstore.com

rocksdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

developers.eventstore.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Cognitect

Event Store Limited

Facebook, Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2013

1987

2009

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

21.2, February 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux
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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

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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