DBMS > Datomic vs. KairosDB vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. KairosDB vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

rocksdb.org

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Cognitect

Facebook, Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2013

2022

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

8.11.4, April 2024

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

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

simple password-based access control

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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