DBMS > Google BigQuery vs. Manticore Search vs. RRDtool vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Google BigQuery vs. Manticore Search vs. RRDtool vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

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

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/bigquery

manticoresearch.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Google

Manticore Software

Tobias Oetiker

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2010

2017

1999

1992

Current release

6.0, February 2023

1.8.0, 2022

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

in-process shared library
Pipes

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

by using the rrdcached daemon

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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