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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Heroic vs. LMDB vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryIn-memory JavaScript DBMSElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.lmdb.tech/­doctechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperCognitectSpotifySymasMicrosoft
Initial release20122014201120142016
Current release1.0.6735, June 20230.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaCJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
JavaScriptC#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsnonoView functions in JavaScriptTransact SQL
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnonenoneSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
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 developmentnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyes

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