DBMS > Altibase vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	829.80
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.71
Rank	#231	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

altibase.com

manticoresearch.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

origodb.com

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

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

manual.manticoresearch.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

origodb.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Altibase

Manticore Software

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

1999

2017

1989

2009

under the name LiveDB

2004

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

6.0, February 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

.Net

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

none

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

depending on model

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

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

Write ahead log

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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 authorization

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