DBMS > Datomic vs. HarperDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. HarperDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.datomic.com

www.harperdb.io

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Cognitect

HarperDB

Percona

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

2017

2015

2013

2001

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

3.1, August 2021

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Node.js

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

proprietary protocol using JSON

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

JavaScript

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

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 LMDB

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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