DBMS > EXASOL vs. Manticore Search vs. Newts vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Manticore Search vs. Newts vs. Snowflake vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

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

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

www.exasol.com

manticoresearch.com

opennms.github.io/newts

www.snowflake.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

manual.manticoresearch.com

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Exasol

Manticore Software

OpenNMS Group

Snowflake Computing Inc.

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2000

2017

2014

2016

Current release

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

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

HTTP REST
Java API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

ACID

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, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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

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