DBMS > Kinetica vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

GPU-accelerated database for real-time analysis of large and streaming datasets

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources. Forked of and compatible with Sphinx.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.76
Rank	#193	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#318	Overall
	#15	Search engines

Score	6.30
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	121.89
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.18
Rank	#157	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Website

www.kinetica.com

manticoresearch.com

www.sap.com/products/sql-anywhere.html

www.sqlite.org

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

www.kinetica.com/docs

docs.manticoresearch.com/latest/html
github.com/manticoresoftware/manticoresearch

help.sap.com/sql-anywhere

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Kinetica

Manticore Software

SAP

formerly Sybase

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2012

2017

1992

2000

2017

Current release

6.0

17, July 2015

3.34.0 (December 1, 2020), December 2020

2.2.0, July 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

none

Hash and Range Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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