DBMS > Datomic vs. LokiJS vs. NSDb vs. RethinkDB vs. SpaceTime

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. LokiJS vs. NSDb vs. RethinkDB vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#106	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

nsdb.io

rethinkdb.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

nsdb.io/Architecture

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Cognitect

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2014

2017

2009

2020

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

JavaScript

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

via views

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

JavaScript

Java
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

range based

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

Using Apache Lucene

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes

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