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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. NSDb vs. Oracle vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

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

Widely used RDBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

nsdb.io

www.oracle.com/database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Cognitect

Oracle

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

2017

1980

1984

2008

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

23c, September 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Java, Scala

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

HP Open VMS

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

yes, on a single node

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)

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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