DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. JaguarDB vs. Manticore Search vs. MaxDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. JaguarDB vs. Manticore Search vs. MaxDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	7.91
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Amazon

DataJaguar, Inc.

Manticore Software

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2017

1984

2013

Current release

3.3 July 2023

6.0, February 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

yes

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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