DBMS > Hyprcubd vs. Manticore Search vs. MySQL vs. Teradata Aster vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Hyprcubd vs. Manticore Search vs. MySQL vs. Teradata Aster vs. Weaviate

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Serverless Time Series DBMS

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#149	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

hyprcubd.com (offline)

manticoresearch.com

www.mysql.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Manticore Software

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Teradata

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2017

1995

2005

2019

Current release

6.0, February 2023

9.0.0, July 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC (https)

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

R packages

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

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

token access

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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