DBMS > GBase vs. Heroic vs. InfinityDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. Heroic vs. InfinityDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

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

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gbase.cn

github.com/spotify/heroic

boilerbay.com

manticoresearch.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Spotify

Boiler Bay Inc.

Manticore Software

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2004

2014

2002

2017

2014

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

4.0

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

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

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Fixed schema

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

yes

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

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

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

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

Sharding

none

Sharding

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

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

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