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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitewww.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseboilerbay.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manuallearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperCognitectGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Boiler Bay Inc.Microsoft
Initial release2012201220022015
Current release1.0.6735, June 20234.0V1
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedAll OS with a Java VMhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsno
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
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 developmentnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesnoyes infousing Azure authentication

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