DBMS > Hive vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle vs. PostGIS vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Hive vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle vs. PostGIS vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

Description

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

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

Widely used RDBMS

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Relational DBMS

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Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

hive.apache.org

manticoresearch.com

www.oracle.com/database

postgis.net

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Manticore Software

Oracle

Initial release

2012

2017

1980

2005

2009

Current release

3.1.3, April 2022

6.0, February 2023

23c, September 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
PHP
Python

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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

optional

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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