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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Interbase vs. Kingbase vs. LMDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.kingbase.com.cnwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdb
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.lmdb.tech/­doc
DeveloperCognitectEmbarcaderoBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Symas
Initial release2012198419992011
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019V8.0, August 20210.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCC and JavaC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono infoexport as XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersInterbase Change Viewsyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
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
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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