DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. GridGain vs. Informix vs. Manticore Search vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. GridGain vs. Informix vs. Manticore Search vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things data

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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDB

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

with Informix TimeSeries Extension

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	17.12
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.gridgain.com

www.ibm.com/products/informix

manticoresearch.com

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

informix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGU8G/welcomeIfxServers.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Google

GridGain Systems, Inc.

IBM, HCL Technologies

Effective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.

Manticore Software

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2010

2007

1984

2017

2011

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

14.10.FC5, November 2020

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C, C++ and Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Since Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes

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

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
JSON API

MongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying 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

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controls

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