DBMS > Datomic vs. jBASE vs. Riak TS vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. jBASE vs. Riak TS vs. VelocityDB

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

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

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Cognitect

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2012

1991

2015

2011

Current release

1.0.7075, December 2023

5.7

3.0.0, September 2022

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.Net

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
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

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

yes

Erlang

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

selectable replication factor

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Based on Windows Authentication

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

Recent citations in the news

Stanchion Turns SQLite Into A Column Store
15 February 2024, iProgrammer

Nubank buys firm behind Clojure programming language
28 July 2020, Finextra

Architecting Software for Leverage
13 November 2021, InfoQ.com

TerminusDB Takes on Data Collaboration with a git-Like Approach
1 December 2020, The New Stack

Brazil’s Nubank acquires US software firm Cognitect, creator of Clojure and Datomic
24 July 2020, LatamList

provided by Google News

Temenos signs first customer in India
24 August 2009, Finextra

provided by Google News

New Basho Data Platform Provides Operational Simplicity for Enterprise Big Data Applications
7 June 2015, insideBIGDATA

provided by Google News

Share this page