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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Manticore Search vs. WakandaDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.46
Rank	#260	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

alasql.org

manticoresearch.com

wakanda.github.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

manual.manticoresearch.com

wakanda.github.io/doc

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Manticore Software

Wakanda SAS

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2017

2012

2019

Current release

6.0, February 2023

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C++, JavaScript

Clojure

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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