DBMS > GridDB vs. Manticore Search vs. OpenEdge vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison GridDB vs. Manticore Search vs. OpenEdge vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big Data

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	2.09
Rank	#120	Overall
	#10	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

griddb.net

manticoresearch.com

www.progress.com/openedge

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.griddb.net

manual.manticoresearch.com

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Toshiba Corporation

Manticore Software

Progress Software Corporation

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2013

2017

1984

2014

Current release

5.1, August 2022

6.0, February 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also available

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestamp

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Connector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobs

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containers

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID at container level

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Users and groups

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

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Specific characteristics

GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantages

1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenarios

Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customers

Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metrics

GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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