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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Quasardb vs. VelocityDB vs. XTDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Document store
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasequasar.aivelocitydb.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedoc.quasar.ai/­mastervelocitydb.com/­UserGuidewww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCognitectGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014quasardbVelocityDB IncJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20122012200920112019
Current release1.0.6735, June 20233.14.1, January 20247.x1.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++C#Clojure
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NETAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API.NetHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.NetClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
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 developmentyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailBased on Windows Authentication

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