DBMS > Datomic vs. MySQL vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. MySQL vs. RethinkDB vs. SAP IQ 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

Widely used open source RDBMS

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.74
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

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

Website

www.datomic.com

www.mysql.com

rethinkdb.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

rethinkdb.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Cognitect

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

SAP, formerly Sybase

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2012

1995

2009

1994

2022

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and C++

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

range based

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Atomic single-document operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

MVCC based

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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