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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. Spark SQL

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSmanticoresearch.comspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJSmanual.manticoresearch.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Manticore SoftwareApache Software Foundation
Initial release2010201420172014
Current release6.0, February 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlangJavaScriptC++Scala
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nonoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonono

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