DBMS > BaseX vs. LevelDB vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. NCache

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. LevelDB vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. NCache

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Website

basex.org

github.com/google/leveldb

google.github.io/lovefield

manticoresearch.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

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

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Google

Manticore Software

Alachisoft

Initial release

2007

2011

2014

2017

2005

Current release

10.7, August 2023

1.23, February 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

6.0, February 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

JavaScript

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

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

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

JavaScript

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

via events

Using read-only observers

yes

Notifications

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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