DBMS > Datomic vs. IRONdb vs. LeanXcale vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. IRONdb vs. LeanXcale vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

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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 highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.datomic.com

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

www.leanxcale.com

rocksdb.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Cognitect

Circonus LLC.

LeanXcale

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

2017

2015

2013

2001

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

through Apache Derby

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

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

C
Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes, in Lua

Triggers

By using transaction functions

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

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

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

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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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