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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. RocksDB vs. Splunk vs. SurrealDB vs. SwayDB

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Analytics Platform for Big DataA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
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Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score93.02
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.datomic.comrocksdb.orgwww.splunk.comsurrealdb.comswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunksurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCognitectFacebook, Inc.Splunk Inc.SurrealDB LtdSimer Plaha
Initial release20122013200320222018
Current release1.0.7180, July 20249.4.0, June 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoBSDcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++RustScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
HTTP RESTGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyesno
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peershorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyesyes
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 developmentyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rulesno

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