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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. RavenDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.49
Rank	#142	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	2.59
Rank	#95	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Website

www.datomic.com

ravendb.net

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Cognitect

Hibernating Rhinos

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2012

2010

1993

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Authorization levels configured per client per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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