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DBMS > Graphite vs. HBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. HBase vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL

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NameGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhbase.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
manticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iohbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.heavy.aimanual.manticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperChris DavisApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetHEAVY.AI, Inc.Manticore Software
Initial release20062008201620172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release2.3.4, January 20215.10, January 20226.0, February 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++ and CUDAC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoCan index from XMLyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnononoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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