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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SWC-DB vs. Tkrzw vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

dbmx.net/tkrzw

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Cognitect

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Mikio Hirabayashi

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2012

2015

2020

1987

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

0.5, April 2021

0.9.3, August 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C++

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

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

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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