DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Manticore Search vs. PostGIS vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Manticore Search vs. PostGIS vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

manticoresearch.com

postgis.net

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

postgis.net/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Google

Manticore Software

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2017

2005

2018

Current release

6.0, February 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

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 journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Role-based access control

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