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System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Heroic vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Manticore Search

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Name

Description

An analytical database for business intelligence with large customers in China.

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	1.04
Rank	#190	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

www.gbase.cn

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

manticoresearch.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

Spotify

IBM

Manticore Software

Initial release

2014

2017

Current release

GBase 8a

2.0

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Active-active shard replication

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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