DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Elasticsearch vs. Manticore Search vs. NSDb vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Elasticsearch vs. Manticore Search vs. NSDb vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

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

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	128.79
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

manticoresearch.com

nsdb.io

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Elastic

Manticore Software

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2012

2010

2017

Current release

8.6, January 2023

6.0, February 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, Scala

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Java
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

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.

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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