DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. EJDB vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. EJDB vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.66
Rank	#235	Overall
	#108	Relational DBMS

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

google.github.io/lovefield

manticoresearch.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

manual.manticoresearch.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Alibaba

Softmotions

Google

Manticore Software

SAP

Initial release

2012

2014

2017

2010

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

6.0, February 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

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.

yes

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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