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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Elasticsearch vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Oracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSSearch engineDocument storeSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmanticoresearch.comwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperBaseX GmbHElasticManticore SoftwareOracle
Initial release20072010201420172007
Current release10.7, August 20238.6, January 20236.0, February 202314.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesnoInt, 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.nonoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JavaScript APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnoyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectoryesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writernono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnonoauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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