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DBMS > Datomic vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. NSDb vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Quasardb

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesWidely used in-process key-value storeDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.88
Rank#130  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comnsdb.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperCognitectOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oraclequasardb
Initial release2012201719942009
Current release1.0.7180, July 202418.1.40, May 20203.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJava, ScalaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringnoyes infointeger and binary
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.nonoyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Java
Scala
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnonono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyes infoonly for the SQL APIno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)Using Apache Luceneyesyes infoby using LevelDB
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 developmentyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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