DBMS > ClickHouse vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Manticore Search vs. Solr vs. Sqrrl

System Properties Comparison ClickHouse vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Manticore Search vs. Solr vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines 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.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

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

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Spatial DBMS

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Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.77
Rank	#141	Overall
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	42.91
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

clickhouse.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

manticoresearch.com

solr.apache.org

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

clickhouse.com/docs

docs.heavy.ai

manual.manticoresearch.com

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Clickhouse Inc.

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Manticore Software

Apache Software Foundation

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2016

2017

2006

2012

Current release

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

5.10, January 2022

6.0, February 2023

9.6.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++ and CUDA

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

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

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java plugins

Triggers

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

key based and custom

Sharding

Round robin

Sharding

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

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

optimistic locking

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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

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.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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