DBMS > Dragonfly vs. jBASE vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. jBASE vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

Widely used RDBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

manticoresearch.com

www.oracle.com/database

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Manticore Software

Oracle

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2023

1991

2017

1980

2008

Current release

1.0, March 2023

5.7

6.0, February 2023

23c, September 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

server-less

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

optional

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.

yes

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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