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System Properties Comparison LokiJS vs. Manticore Search vs. Newts vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

manticoresearch.com

opennms.github.io/newts

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

manual.manticoresearch.com

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Manticore Software

OpenNMS Group

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2014

2017

2014

2012

Current release

6.0, February 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

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

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

via views

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

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

Java

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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