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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. EJDB vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle NoSQL

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)In-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document storeDocument storeSearch engineDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmanticoresearch.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosql
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffSoftmotionsManticore SoftwareOracle
Initial release20142012201420172011
Current release6.0, February 202324.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPLv2Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)server-lessserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemaSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanoptional
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.nonoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesnonoyes 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 languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIin-process shared libraryJavaScript APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyes 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.yesyesyes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononoAccess rights for users and roles

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