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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Graphite vs. NSDb vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.47
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score4.91
Rank#64  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#386  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.08
Rank#116  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score99.49
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webnsdb.iopouchdb.comwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comgraphite.readthedocs.ionsdb.io/­Architecturepouchdb.com/­guideswww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperCognitectChris DavisApache Software FoundationDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20122006201720122000
Current release1.0.7180, July 20247.1.1, June 20193.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojurePythonJava, ScalaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-less
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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 indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
JavaScriptActionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsnonoView functions in JavaScriptno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesUsing Apache Luceneyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
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 controlnononono

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