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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. BigchainDB vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmanticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latesttechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffManticore SoftwareMicrosoft
Initial release20142016201420172016
Current release6.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonJavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenononoInt, 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 indexesnoyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.nonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APICLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsTransact SQL
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factornoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnonoyes

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