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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

Widely used in-process key-value store

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.42
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.88
Rank	#130	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

manticoresearch.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Manticore Software

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2014

2017

1994

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

6.0, February 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

commercial license available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

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

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate 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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

MVCC

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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