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

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 KubernetesSpatial extension of SQLiteScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comnsdb.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexvitess.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comnsdb.io/­Architecturewww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperCognitectOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Alessandro FurieriThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20122017198420082013
Current release1.0.7075, December 20237.4.1.1, 20215.0.0, August 202015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJava, ScalaC++Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
HP Open VMSserver-lessDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Java
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnonoyes infoproprietary syntax
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes, on a single nodeACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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 developmentnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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