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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. NuoDB vs. PlanetScale vs. Solr

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseplanetscale.comsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comdoc.nuodb.complanetscale.com/­docssolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperCognitectDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.PlanetScaleApache Software Foundation
Initial release2012201320202006
Current release1.0.7075, December 20239.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++GoJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsJava, SQLyes infoproprietary syntaxJava plugins
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACID at shard leveloptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
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 infoTemporary tableyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes

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