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DBMS > BigObject vs. InfinityDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. InfinityDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#333  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#357  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.56
Rank#253  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.ioboilerbay.commachbase.commanticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.ioboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualmachbase.com/­dbmsmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.MachbaseManticore Software
Initial release20152002201320172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release4.0V8.0, August 20236.0, February 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
All OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoCan index from XMLyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneselectable replication factorSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonosimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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