DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Couchbase vs. Manticore Search vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Couchbase vs. Manticore Search vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

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

Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystems

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

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	74.45
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	16.59
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	8.59
Rank	#45	Overall
	#29	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.couchbase.com

manticoresearch.com

www.ibm.com/products/netezza

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.couchbase.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Couchbase, Inc.

Manticore Software

IBM

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

2011

2017

2000

2014

Current release

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, C++, Go and Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

included in appliance

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

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

JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via the TAP protocol

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

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

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

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

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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

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