DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. Geode vs. Manticore Search vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Drizzle vs. Geode vs. Manticore Search vs. RDF4J

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

geode.apache.org

manticoresearch.com

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

geode.apache.org/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Manticore Software

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2012

2008

2002

2017

2004

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

1.1, February 2017

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

RDF Schemas

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language (OQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

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

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

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 storage is supported as well

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access rights per client and object definable

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