DBMS > Apache Druid vs. Manticore Search vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. Manticore Search vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB vs. Trino

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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

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

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
RDF store

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	3.34
Rank	#88	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Manticore Software

Snowflake Computing Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2012

2017

2014

2018

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

29.0.1, April 2024

6.0, February 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

Fixed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

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

yes

Graph Partitioning

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

Journaling Streams

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

depending on connected data-source

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 journaling

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

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

Role-based access control

SQL standard access control

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Competitive advantages

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