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DBMS > Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Machbase Neo vs. RocksDB vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Machbase Neo vs. RocksDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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 serverTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachemachbase.comrocksdb.orgsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.intersystems.commachbase.com/­dbmsgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikisql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperCognitectInterSystemsMachbaseFacebook, Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20121997201320132012
Current release1.0.6735, June 20232018.1.4, May 2020V8.0, August 20238.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesdepending on used data modelyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#
C++
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyesnonono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationselectable replication factoryesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoyesACID
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)yesnoyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
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 developmentyesyes infovolatile and lookup tableyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple password-based access controlnono

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