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DBMS > Datomic vs. HyperSQL vs. TinkerGraph vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. HyperSQL vs. TinkerGraph vs. VoltDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comhsqldb.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperCognitectVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2012200120092010
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232.7.2, June 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaJavaJava, C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
TinkerPop 3Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Groovy
Java
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsJava, SQLnoJava
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesoptionalyes infoSnapshots and command logging
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 developmentyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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