DBMS > Greenplum vs. Manticore Search vs. Snowflake vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Greenplum vs. Manticore Search vs. Snowflake vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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Description

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

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

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	9.23
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

greenplum.org

manticoresearch.com

www.snowflake.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.greenplum.org

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Pivotal Software Inc.

Manticore Software

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2005

2017

2014

2009

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

since Version 4.2

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

yes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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