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DBMS > Datomic vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SurrealDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Hypertable vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SurrealDB vs. TempoIQ

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityAn open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopWidely used in-process key-value storeA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlsurrealdb.comtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCognitectHypertable Inc.Oracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleSurrealDB LtdTempoIQ
Initial release20122009199420222012
Current release1.0.6735, June 20230.9.8.11, March 201618.1.40, May 2020v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesyes
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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Thrift
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnonono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factor on file system levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
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)yesyesyesyes
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 developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple authentication-based access control

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