DBMS > Datomic vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hazelcast vs. JSqlDb vs. Linter

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hazelcast vs. JSqlDb vs. Linter

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

RDBMS for high security requirements

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hazelcast.com

jsqldb.org (offline)

linter.ru

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

Developer

Cognitect

Google

Hazelcast

Konrad von Backstrom

relex.ru

Initial release

2012

2010

2008

2018

1990

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

functions in JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

Replicated Map

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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

using RocksDB

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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