DBMS > Hazelcast vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. MySQL vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. MySQL vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Widely used open source RDBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

manticoresearch.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.mysql.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Hazelcast

Manticore Software

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rocket Software

Initial release

2008

2017

2012

1995

1985

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

6.0, February 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

optional

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

the object must implement a serialization strategy

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

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

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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 or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

optimistic locking

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Role-based access control

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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