DBMS > ClickHouse vs. FoundationDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. FoundationDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle Coherence

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Description

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	15.55
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Website

clickhouse.com

github.com/apple/foundationdb

manticoresearch.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

apple.github.io/foundationdb

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

FoundationDB

Manticore Software

Oracle

Initial release

2016

2013

2017

2007

Current release

v24.4.2.141-stable, June 2024

6.2.28, November 2020

6.0, February 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

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

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

supported in specific SQL layer only

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

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

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes, with selectable consistency level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Linearizable consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

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

configurable

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

optionally

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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