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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. GigaSpaces vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.gigaspaces.com

manticoresearch.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Altibase

Gigaspaces Technologies

Manticore Software

SAP

Initial release

1999

2000

2017

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

15.5, September 2020

6.0, February 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

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

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

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

Role-based access control

yes

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