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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Manticore Search vs. MonetDB vs. Qdrant vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Manticore Search vs. MonetDB vs. Qdrant vs. Transbase

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgmanticoresearch.comwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffManticore SoftwareMonetDB BVQdrantTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20142017200420211987
Current release6.0, February 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++CRustC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemayesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, 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.noCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusCollection-level replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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