DBMS > Datomic vs. HugeGraph vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. HugeGraph vs. Interbase vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB

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Name

IRONdb 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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

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

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.datomic.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Cognitect

Baidu

Embarcadero

Circonus LLC.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2018

1984

2017

2013

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

0.9

InterBase 2020, December 2019

V0.10.20, January 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Unix

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes, in Lua

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Interbase Change Views

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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