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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. STSdb vs. TerminusDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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Name

Description

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#165	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

terminusdb.com

victoriametrics.com

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

Cognitect

STS Soft SC

DataChemist Ltd.

VictoriaMetrics

Initial release

2012

2011

2018

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

11.0.0, January 2023

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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 (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

C#
Java

JavaScript
Python

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

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Journaling Streams

Synchronous replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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 journaling

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

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