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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

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

Developer

Cognitect

IBM

Google

Initial release

2012

2014

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

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

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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