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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Riak KV vs. RocksDB vs. Trino

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	5.28
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

rocksdb.org

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Developer

Cognitect

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2009

2013

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

9.4.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

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

restricted

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Erlang

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

selectable replication factor

yes

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

depending on connected data-source

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes, using Riak Security

SQL standard access control

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