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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Hypertable vs. Lovefield vs. YottaDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.datomic.com

google.github.io/lovefield

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Cognitect

Hypertable Inc.

Google

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2012

2009

2014

2001

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Thrift

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor on file system level

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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