DBMS > Datomic vs. MarkLogic vs. RocksDB vs. Solr vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. MarkLogic vs. RocksDB vs. Solr vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Key-value store

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	6.50
Rank	#56	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#5	Search engines

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	44.28
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.marklogic.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

solr.apache.org/resources.html

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Cognitect

MarkLogic Corp.

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2012

2001

2013

2006

2001

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

11.0, December 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

9.5.0, February 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

C++ API
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Java plugins

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

yes

optimistic locking

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

yes

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