DBMS > Graphite vs. Kdb vs. Manticore Search vs. MariaDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Graphite vs. Kdb vs. Manticore Search vs. MariaDB vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

High performance Time Series DBMS

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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

kx.com

manticoresearch.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

code.kx.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Chris Davis

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Manticore Software

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Initial release

2006

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2017

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

3.6, May 2018

6.0, February 2023

11.3.2, February 2024

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Python

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data only

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.

yes

Can index from XML

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

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

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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