DBMS > Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Manticore Search vs. MonetDB vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. Google BigQuery vs. Manticore Search vs. MonetDB vs. Qdrant

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Name

Description

An online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on Greenplum

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#220	Overall
	#102	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hybriddb-postgresql

cloud.google.com/bigquery

manticoresearch.com

www.monetdb.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/analyticdb-for-postgresql/latest/product-introduction-overview

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Alibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Google

Manticore Software

MonetDB BV

Qdrant

Initial release

2016

2010

2017

2004

2021

Current release

6.0, February 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

yes

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

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

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

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