DBMS > Dolt vs. LevelDB vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. LevelDB vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

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

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
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Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

github.com/google/leveldb

manticoresearch.com

rocksdb.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

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

manual.manticoresearch.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Google

Manticore Software

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2018

2011

2017

2013

2018

Current release

1.23, February 2021

6.0, February 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

user defined functions

Triggers

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

yes

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

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