DBMS > Datomic vs. Infobright vs. Manticore Search vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Infobright vs. Manticore Search vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	1.55
Rank	#144	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.datomic.com

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

manticoresearch.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

docs.datomic.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

Cognitect

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Manticore Software

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2012

2005

2017

1994

Current release

1.0.7180, July 2024

6.0, February 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

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

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Clojure
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

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

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

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