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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. GBase vs. Memgraph vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jWidely used in-process key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
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Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#94  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#130  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.gbase.cnmemgraph.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.html
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.commemgraph.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperCognitectGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Memgraph LtdOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle
Initial release2012200420171994
Current release1.0.7180, July 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c18.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infocommercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC, Java, PythonC and C++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinuxAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyesnoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML edition
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is available
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
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 developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesUsers, roles and permissionsno
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DatomicGBaseMemgraphOracle Berkeley DB
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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