DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Geode vs. InfinityDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Geode vs. InfinityDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

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

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#131	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

geode.apache.org/docs

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Manticore Software

Oracle

Initial release

2014

2002

2017

1980

Current release

1.1, February 2017

4.0

6.0, February 2023

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Fixed schema

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

yes

Secondary indexes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Java

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

yes, on a single node

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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