DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. Manticore Search vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. Manticore Search vs. TerminusDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

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

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#386	Overall
	#16	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

manticoresearch.com

terminusdb.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

manual.manticoresearch.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Amazon

Manticore Software

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2012

2017

2018

2023

Current release

6.0, February 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

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

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript
Python

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

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

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 journaling

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

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

Role-based access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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