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DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Machbase Neo vs. Manticore Search vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Machbase Neo vs. Manticore Search vs. Netezza vs. Snowflake

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Data warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelDocument storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score9.06
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmachbase.commanticoresearch.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmachbase.com/­dbmsmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MachbaseManticore SoftwareIBMSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20102013201720002014
Current releaseV8.0, August 20236.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageErlangCC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux infoincluded in appliancehosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesFixed schemayesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoCan index from XMLyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnouser defined functionsyesuser defined functions
Triggersyesnononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factorSynchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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