DBMS > Datomic vs. Memgraph vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Memgraph vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

memgraph.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

memgraph.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Social network pages

Developer

Cognitect

Memgraph Ltd

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2012

2017

2013

1992

2009

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

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 and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

with snapshot isolation

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

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

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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