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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. GBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Infobright vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. GBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Infobright vs. Manticore Search

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitealasql.orgwww.gbase.cngithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
ignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbmanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.heavy.aimanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Manticore Software
Initial release20142004201620052017
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.10, January 20226.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC, Java, PythonC++ and CUDACC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinuxLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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.noyesnonoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesnoyesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.Standard with numerous extensionsyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonouser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoRound robinnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesno

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