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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. OrientDB vs. SurrealDB vs. Teradata Aster

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.45
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score2.73
Rank#94  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score0.95
Rank#188  Overall
#31  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comorientdb.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCognitectOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSurrealDB LtdTeradata
Initial release2012201020222005
Current release1.0.7180, July 20243.2.29, March 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaRust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsJava, JavascriptR packages
TriggersBy using transaction functionsHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replicationyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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