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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. IRONdb vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. LokiJS

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Website

www.datomic.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Cognitect

Circonus LLC.

Kyligence, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2017

2016

2014

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes, in Lua

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Automatic, metric affinity per node

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

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

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

User concepts

Access control

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