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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Ingres vs. IRONdb vs. RocksDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityWell established RDBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
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Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score3.63
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score1.44
Rank#152  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/rocksdb.orgwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperCognitectActian CorporationCirconus LLC.Facebook, Inc.
Initial release20121974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201720132017
Current release1.0.7180, July 202412.0, July 2024V0.10.20, January 20189.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyesyes, in Luanoyes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersIngres Replicatorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
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 developmentnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoRole-based access control

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