DBMS > DolphinDB vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison DolphinDB vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Widely used in-process key-value store

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	2.21
Rank	#117	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.dolphindb.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

manticoresearch.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

DolphinDB, Inc

Manticore Software

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2018

2014

2017

1994

Current release

v2.00.4, January 2022

6.0, February 2023

18.1.40, May 2020

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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

yes

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

JavaScript API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

JavaScript

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

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

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

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

atomic operations within a single collection possible

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

User concepts

Access control

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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