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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. MaxDB vs. OrigoDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.datomic.com

maxdb.sap.com

origodb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

origodb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Cognitect

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Robert Friberg et al

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2012

1984

2009

under the name LiveDB

2019

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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