DBMS > Heroic vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

manticoresearch.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.snowflake.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Spotify

Manticore Software

Sybase, SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2017

1993

2014

2019

Current release

6.0, February 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

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

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

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

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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