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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Manticore Search vs. Splunk vs. Teradata vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Manticore Search vs. Splunk vs. Teradata vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Analytics Platform for Big DataA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Search engineSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series 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
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgmanticoresearch.comwww.splunk.comwww.teradata.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.teradata.comdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffManticore SoftwareSplunk Inc.TeradataVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20142017200319842018
Current release6.0, February 2023Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Go
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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 XMLyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.SQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
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 writesno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACIDno
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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