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DBMS > Datomic vs. SurrealDB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. SurrealDB vs. Transbase

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.48
Rank#143  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.01
Rank#179  Overall
#31  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#155  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comsurrealdb.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comsurrealdb.com/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperCognitectSurrealDB LtdTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release201220221987
Current release1.0.7180, July 2024v1.5.0, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Sourcecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureRustC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peers
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
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 developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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