DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. CrateDB vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. BigObject vs. CrateDB vs. Manticore Search

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Distributed Database based on Lucene

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	15.25
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#226	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#11	Vector DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

bigobject.io

cratedb.com

manticoresearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.bigobject.io

cratedb.com/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

BigObject, Inc.

Crate

Manticore Software

Initial release

2012

2015

2013

2017

Current release

5.8.1, August 2024

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Lua

user defined functions (Javascript)

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

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