DBMS > AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. H2 vs. JSqlDb vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigObject vs. H2 vs. JSqlDb vs. Manticore Search

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.bigobject.io

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

BigObject, Inc.

Thomas Mueller

Konrad von Backstrom

Manticore Software

Initial release

2014

2015

2005

2018

2017

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

0.8, December 2018

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

using RocksDB

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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