DBMS > Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. Manticore Search vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Drizzle vs. Manticore Search vs. Snowflake

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

manticoresearch.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Manticore Software

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1999

2008

2017

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PHP

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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