DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. Manticore Search vs. MarkLogic vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Manticore Search vs. MarkLogic vs. OrigoDB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

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

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Primary database model

Document store

Search engine

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.marklogic.com

origodb.com/docs

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Google

Manticore Software

MarkLogic Corp.

Robert Friberg et al

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

Initial release

2008

2017

2001

2009

under the name LiveDB

2004

Current release

6.0, February 2023

11.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

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

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL92

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

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

.Net

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

user defined functions

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

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

Write ahead log

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Role based authorization

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