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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Datomic vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. SurrealDB

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.datomic.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmanticoresearch.comsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmanual.manticoresearch.comsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAxibase CorporationCognitectGoogleManticore SoftwareSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20132012201420172022
Current release155851.0.7075, December 20232.1.12, February 20176.0, February 2023v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureJavaScriptC++Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nononoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsnouser defined functions
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes infousing MemoryDB
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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