DBMS > Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

manticoresearch.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Google

Manticore Software

Microsoft

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2017

2012

1984

2014

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

6.0, February 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

HP Open VMS

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

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

yes

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

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 query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Using read-only observers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

optimistic locking

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

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

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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

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