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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. RethinkDB vs. SwayDB vs. Tkrzw

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityCloud-based data warehousing serviceDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouserethinkdb.comswaydb.simer.audbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCognitectIBMThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Simer PlahaMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20122014200920182020
Current release1.0.7075, December 20232.4.1, August 20200.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++ScalaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometrynono
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsPL/SQL, SQL PLnono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding inforange basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesSource-replica replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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 developmentyesnoyesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsnono

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