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

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

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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

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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Spatial DBMS

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	#13	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	41.02
Rank	#24	Overall
	#3	Search engines

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

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

solr.apache.org/resources.html

Developer

Google

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Manticore Software

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2010

2007

2017

2011

2006

Current release

GridGain 8.5.1

6.0, February 2023

9.6.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

runs as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Dynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

supports customizable data types and automatic typing

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

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

SQL-like query language

Solr Parallel SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

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

HTTP API
Telnet API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

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

user defined functions

Java plugins

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

User configurable commands triggered on index changes

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes (replicated cache)

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

spark-solr: github.com/lucidworks/spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

optimistic locking

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

yes

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