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DBMS > EXASOL vs. GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. GeoSpock vs. HEAVY.AI vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitewww.exasol.comgeospock.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.heavy.aitechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperExasolGeoSpockHEAVY.AI, Inc.Manticore Software
Initial release2000201620142017
Current release2.0, September 20195.10, January 20226.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC++ and CUDAJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonononoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalnoyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JavaScript APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding infoRound robinnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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