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DBMS > Datomic vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NuoDB vs. RDFox

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Hazelcast vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NuoDB vs. RDFox

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA widely adopted in-memory data gridSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Vector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Websitewww.datomic.comhazelcast.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdoc.nuodb.comdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperCognitectHazelcastMicrosoftDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Oxford Semantic Technologies
Initial release20122008201520132017
Current release1.0.6735, June 20235.3.6, November 2023V16.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VMhostedhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes infoRDF schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infothe object must implement a serialization strategynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyesno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor ServicesnoJava, SQL
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyes infoEventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infoReplicated Mapyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBreplication via a shared file system
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitednoACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes
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 developmentyesnoyes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlyes infousing Azure authenticationStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersRoles, resources, and access types

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