DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Datomic vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Datomic vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.06
Rank	#367	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

www.datomic.com

google.github.io/lovefield

manticoresearch.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.datomic.com

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

manual.manticoresearch.com

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Cognitect

Google

Manticore Software

SiteWhere

Initial release

2014

2012

2014

2017

2010

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java, Clojure

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

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 query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

By using transaction functions

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

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

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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