DBMS > BaseX vs. Manticore Search vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Manticore Search vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

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

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

manual.manticoresearch.com

origodb.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Manticore Software

Robert Friberg et al

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2007

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

2004

2012

Current release

10.7, August 2023

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

Can index from XML

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

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

.Net

Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Source-replica replication

none

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

Write ahead log

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Role based authorization

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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