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DBMS > Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. HBase vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. Google Cloud Spanner vs. HBase vs. Manticore Search

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  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.A horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#100  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitealtibase.comcloud.google.com/­spannerhbase.apache.orgmanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualscloud.google.com/­spanner/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlmanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperAltibaseDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerGoogleApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetManticore Software
Initial release19992008201720082017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20237.2.4, September 20122.3.4, January 20216.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
hostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROInt, 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 indexesyesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011noSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C
C++
Java
PHP
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonoyes infoCoprocessors in Javauser defined functions
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding 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
Multi-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflowyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infoStrict serializable isolationSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)yes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno

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