DBMS > CouchDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

couchdb.apache.org

manticoresearch.com

www.snowflake.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

Manticore Software

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2005

2017

2014

2019

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

6.0, February 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

via views

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

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

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single document possible

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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 database

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

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