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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Lovefield vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Spatial extension of SQLite

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Cognitect

Google

Alessandro Furieri

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2012

2014

2008

2017

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

5.0.0, August 2020

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

JavaScript

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

JavaScript

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

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