DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Manticore Search vs. RDF4J vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Manticore Search vs. RDF4J vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TerminusDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

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

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	0.74
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

manticoresearch.com

rdf4j.org

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Google

Manticore Software

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Sybase, SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2010

2017

2004

1993

2018

Current release

6.0, February 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

RDF Schemas

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

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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

Java
PHP
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

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

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

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 storage is supported as well

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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