DBMS > LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenTSDB vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenTSDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document 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	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

manticoresearch.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

opentsdb.net

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

manual.manticoresearch.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Manticore Software

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2014

2017

2014

2011

2009

Current release

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

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

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

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

Sharding

based on HBase

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

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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

optional

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

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