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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Machbase Neo vs. MySQL vs. NCache vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Widely used open source RDBMS

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#339	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

www.datomic.com

machbase.com

www.mysql.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

machbase.com/dbms

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Cognitect

Machbase

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alachisoft

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2012

2013

1995

2005

2009

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

V8.0, August 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

proprietary syntax

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Notifications

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

MVCC based

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

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

users and table-level permissions

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