DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Manticore Search vs. NSDb

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Datomic vs. Manticore Search vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	19.03
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.datomic.com

manticoresearch.com

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.datomic.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Cognitect

Manticore Software

Initial release

2012

2017

Current release

1.0.6735, June 2023

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes: int, bigint, decimal, 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

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Clojure
Java

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

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

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

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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