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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. Kinetica vs. Manticore Search vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	5.80
Rank	#60	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.kinetica.com

manticoresearch.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.datastax.com

docs.kinetica.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

DataStax

Kinetica

Manticore Software

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2011

2012

2017

2000

Current release

6.8, April 2020

7.1, August 2021

6.0, February 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users and roles on table level

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Specific characteristics

DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantages

Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenarios

Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customers

Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Annual subscription
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