DBMS > Blueflood vs. HugeGraph vs. Manticore Search vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. HugeGraph vs. Manticore Search vs. Snowflake vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

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

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

manticoresearch.com

www.snowflake.com

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Rackspace

Baidu

Manticore Software

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

2018

2017

2014

Current release

0.9

6.0, February 2023

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Unix

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

yes

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

also supports composite index and range index

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Groovy
Java
Python

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

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

yes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

yes

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.

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

Users, roles and permissions

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

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