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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Memcached vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Spatial extension of SQLite

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.memcached.org

origodb.com

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

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

origodb.com/docs

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

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Cognitect

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Robert Friberg et al

Alessandro Furieri

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2012

2003

2009

under the name LiveDB

2008

2010

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

1.6.25, March 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

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

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Java

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Domain Events

yes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

depending on model

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

Write ahead log

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Role based authorization

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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