DBMS > Amazon Neptune vs. Manticore Search vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Amazon Neptune vs. Manticore Search vs. PostGIS vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Fast, reliable graph database built for the cloud

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	2.29
Rank	#113	Overall
	#9	Graph DBMS
	#5	RDF stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/neptune

manticoresearch.com

postgis.net

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

aws.amazon.com/neptune/developer-resources

manual.manticoresearch.com

postgis.net/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Manticore Software

SAP, Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2005

1987

2014

Current release

6.0, February 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

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-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

OpenCypher
RDF 1.1 / SPARQL 1.1
TinkerPop Gremlin

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

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-availability zones high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicas within a single region. Global database clusters consists of a primary write DB cluster in one region, and up to five secondary read DB clusters in different regions. Each secondary region can have up to 16 reader instances.

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication
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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with encyption-at-rest

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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