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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Coveo vs. H2 vs. Manticore Search vs. MaxDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score2.11
Rank#118  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.coveo.comwww.h2database.commanticoresearch.commaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.coveo.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlmanual.manticoresearch.commaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCoveoThomas MuellerManticore SoftwareSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20142012200520171984
Current release2.2.220, July 20236.0, February 20237.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoGPL version 2commercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyesFixed 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 fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSynchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyesACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnogranular access controls, API key management, content filtersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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