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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. HarperDB vs. Manticore Search vs. PouchDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitealtibase.comwww.harperdb.iomanticoresearch.compouchdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.harperdb.io/­docsmanual.manticoresearch.compouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperAltibaseDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerHarperDBManticore SoftwareApache Software Foundation
Initial release19992008201720172012
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20237.2.4, September 20123.1, August 20216.0, February 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++Node.jsC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesdynamic schemaFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoJSON data typesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanno
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.nonoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like data manipulation statementsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoCustom Functions infosince release 3.1user defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic execution of specific operationsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, using LMDByes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users and rolesnono

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