DBMS > Altibase vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

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	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

cloud.google.com/datastore

manticoresearch.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

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

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Altibase

Google

Manticore Software

SAP

Initial release

1999

2008

2017

2010

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

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

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

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

yes, details here

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

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language (GQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

using Google App Engine

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

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 using Paxos

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

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 rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

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