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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. NSDb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RethinkDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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 KubernetesA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score2.96
Rank#103  Overall
#18  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#52  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#106  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comnsdb.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlrethinkdb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCognitectOracleThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Alessandro Furieri
Initial release20122017201120092008
Current release1.0.6735, June 202323.3, December 20232.4.1, August 20205.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJava, ScalaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringoptionalyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Java
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnonono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardingSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)Atomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)Using Apache Luceneyesyesyes
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 developmentyes infooff heap cachenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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