DBMS > Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. GeoSpock vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OrientDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

geospock.com

manticoresearch.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Axibase Corporation

GeoSpock

Manticore Software

Microsoft

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2013

2017

2014

2010

Current release

15585

2.0, September 2019

6.0, February 2023

3.2.29, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

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

yes

JSON types

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

temporal, categorical

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

JavaScript

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Sharding

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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