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DBMS > Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. H2 vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. GeoMesa vs. H2 vs. Manticore Search

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial 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
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Score1.21
Rank#182  Overall
#83  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#218  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score8.14
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitealtibase.comwww.geomesa.orgwww.h2database.commanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperAltibaseDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCCRi and othersThomas MuellerManticore Software
Initial release19992008201420052017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20237.2.4, September 20124.0.5, February 20242.2.220, July 20236.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++ScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesInt, 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.nononoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
PHP
JavaElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingdepending on storage layernoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on storage layerWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.yesdepending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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