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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. MySQL vs. Pinecone

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityWidely used open source RDBMSA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.45
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score999.99
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score2.94
Rank#84  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.mysql.comwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdev.mysql.com/­docdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperCognitectOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release201219952019
Current release1.0.7180, July 20249.0.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Boolean
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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