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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. Manticore Search vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. Apache Druid vs. Manticore Search vs. TerminusDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Search engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#88  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comdruid.apache.orgmanticoresearch.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designmanual.manticoresearch.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseApache Software Foundation and contributorsManticore SoftwareDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20141999201220172018
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202329.0.1, April 20246.0, February 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
OS X
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nononoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92SQL for queryingSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoRole-based access control

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