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DBMS > Manticore Search vs. MariaDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Netezza vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. MariaDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Netezza vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMariaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score91.04
Rank#13  Overall
#9  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Websitemanticoresearch.commariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationmanual.manticoresearch.commariadb.com/­kb/­en/­librarydocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
DeveloperManticore SoftwareMariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
MicrosoftIBMSybase, SAP
Initial release20172009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995201620001993
Current release6.0, February 202311.3.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT MariaDB offers MariaDB in a fully managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant.
Implementation languageC++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
hostedLinux infoincluded in applianceLinux
Windows
Data schemeFixed schemayes infoDynamic columns are supportedyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyesyesyes
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.Can index from XMLyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C#
Java
PHP
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3Transact SQLyesyes
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedseveral options for horizontal partitioning and ShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infonot for in-memory storage engineyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infowith MEMORY storage engineno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
Manticore SearchMariaDBMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS
Specific characteristicsMariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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Competitive advantagesMariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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Typical application scenariosWeb, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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Key customersDeutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metricsMariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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