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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LevelDB vs. mSQL vs. ObjectBox

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA multi-model DBMS and application serverEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­google/­leveldbhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.intersystems.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mddocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperCognitectInterSystemsGoogleHughes TechnologiesObjectBox Limited
Initial release20121997201119942017
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232018.1.4, May 20201.23, February 20214.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++CC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#
C++
Java
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyesnonono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationnonenoneonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
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 developmentyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnonoyes
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