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DBMS > Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. TimescaleDB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. TimescaleDB vs. VoltDB

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmanticoresearch.comwww.timescale.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.timescale.comdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperGoogleManticore SoftwareTimescaleVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2014201720172010
Current release2.1.12, February 20176.0, February 20232.15.0, May 202411.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++CJava, C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noCan index from XMLyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languageyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellJava
TriggersUsing read-only observersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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