DBMS > GBase vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic vs. Manticore Search

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Name

Description

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

www.gbase.cn

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/spotify/heroic

manticoresearch.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Google

Spotify

Manticore Software

Initial release

2004

2010

2014

2017

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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.

yes

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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