DBMS > KairosDB vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. Riak TS vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. Riak TS vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

manticoresearch.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

manual.manticoresearch.com

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

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Manticore Software

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2014

2017

2015

2000

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

6.0, February 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

full-text index on all search fields

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

JavaScript API

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

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

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

simple password-based access control

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