DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. Manticore Search vs. RRDtool vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Manticore Search vs. RRDtool vs. Snowflake

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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.

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.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	4.36
Rank	#72	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

cloud.google.com/datastore

manticoresearch.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Google

Manticore Software

Tobias Oetiker

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2008

2017

1999

2014

Current release

6.0, February 2023

1.8.0, 2022

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

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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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

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, details here

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (GQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

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

in-process shared library
Pipes

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

using Google App Engine

user defined functions

Triggers

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using Paxos

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

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.

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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