DBMS > Datomic vs. HugeGraph vs. Machbase Neo vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. HugeGraph vs. Machbase Neo vs. RocksDB

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Name

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

Primary database model

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.datomic.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

machbase.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

machbase.com/dbms

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Cognitect

Baidu

Machbase

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2018

2013

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

0.9

V8.0, August 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Groovy
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

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

yes

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

Sharding

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

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

simple password-based access control

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