DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Cassandra vs. Ehcache vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Cassandra vs. Ehcache vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
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	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

alasql.org

cassandra.apache.org

www.ehcache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

manticoresearch.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.ehcache.org/documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Manticore Software

Initial release

2014

2008

2009

2014

2017

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

via views

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 SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JCache

JavaScript API

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

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

atomic operations within a single collection possible

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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