DBMS > Apache Kylin vs. ArcadeDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Manticore Search vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. ArcadeDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Manticore Search vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

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

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Key-value store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	1.18
Rank	#172	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#53	Key-value stores
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.41
Rank	#266	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

kylin.apache.org

arcadedb.com

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

manticoresearch.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

docs.arcadedb.com

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

Arcade Data

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Manticore Software

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2021

2023

2017

2014

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

September 2021

1.0, March 2023

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

scheme-free

Fixed schema

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, strict serializability by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

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

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