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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. LokiJS vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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 serverIn-memory JavaScript DBMSLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Document storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachegithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
rdf4j.org
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.intersystems.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.objectbox.iordf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperCognitectInterSystemsObjectBox LimitedSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20121997201420172004
Current release1.0.7075, December 20232018.1.4, May 20204.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen SourceBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaScriptC and C++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelschema-freeyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIProprietary native APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#
C++
Java
JavaScriptC
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsyesView functions in JavaScriptnoyes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesyesnoyes
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 replicationnoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
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 developmentyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoyesno
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