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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. IRONdb vs. Pinecone vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL

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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 managed, cloud-native vector database

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

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

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

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

www.pinecone.io

rocksdb.org

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

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

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Cognitect

Circonus LLC.

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2017

2019

2013

2014

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

String, Number, Boolean

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

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

Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

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

yes, utilizing Spark Core

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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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