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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io/Architecture

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Cognitect

Microsoft

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

2016

2017

2022

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

v1.1.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Java, Scala

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C#
Java
PHP

Java
Scala

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

Using Apache Lucene

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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