DBMS > eXtremeDB vs. Faircom DB vs. Manticore Search vs. Riak KV vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Faircom DB vs. Manticore Search vs. Riak KV vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#318	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores
	#141	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

manticoresearch.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

McObject

FairCom Corporation

Manticore Software

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2001

1979

2017

2009

2015

Current release

8.2, 2021

V12, November 2020

6.0, February 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

ANSI C, C++

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

Erlang

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

Sharding

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

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

selectable replication factor

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

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

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

yes, using Riak Security

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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