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

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NameGraphite  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 WhisperA 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 DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
manticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.heavy.aimanual.manticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperChris DavisHEAVY.AI, Inc.Manticore Software
Initial release2006201620172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release5.10, January 20226.0, February 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++ and CUDAC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data onlyyesInt, 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.nonoCan index from XMLyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Sockets
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
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 proceduresnonouser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding 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 replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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