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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. H2 vs. HyperSQL vs. Manticore Search vs. MarkLogic

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgwww.h2database.comhsqldb.orgmanticoresearch.comwww.marklogic.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.marklogic.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffThomas MuellerManticore SoftwareMarkLogic Corp.
Initial release20142005200120172001
Current release2.2.220, July 20232.7.2, June 20236.0, February 202311.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java VMAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesFixed schemaschema-free infoSchema can be enforced
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 XMLyes
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.yesyesSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL92
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsJava, SQLuser defined functionsyes infovia XQuery or JavaScript
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
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 nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databasenoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
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.yesyesyesyes, with Range Indexes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

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