DBMS > AlaSQL vs. HarperDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. HarperDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

RDF store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#256	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

alasql.org

www.harperdb.io

manticoresearch.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

docs.harperdb.io/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

HarperDB

Manticore Software

Microsoft

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2014

2017

2014

2004

Current release

3.1, August 2021

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Node.js

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

yes

JSON types

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

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session 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

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

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 LMDB

yes

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

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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