DBMS > InfluxDB vs. LevelDB vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server

System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. LevelDB vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/google/leveldb

google.github.io/lovefield

manticoresearch.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

manual.manticoresearch.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Google

Manticore Software

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2011

2014

2017

1989

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

1.23, February 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

6.0, February 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

JavaScript

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

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

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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