DBMS > LevelDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OrigoDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OrigoDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Key-value store

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

manticoresearch.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

origodb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

manual.manticoresearch.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

origodb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

Manticore Software

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2011

2017

2014

2009

under the name LiveDB

2019

Current release

1.23, February 2021

6.0, February 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

JSON types

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

Write ahead log

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role based authorization

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