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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Lovefield vs. openGemini vs. searchxml

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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

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.datomic.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

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

docs.opengemini.org/guide

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Cognitect

Google

Huawei and openGemini community

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2012

2014

2022

2015

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

1.1, July 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

on the application server

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

Administrators and common users accounts

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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