DBMS > Manticore Search vs. NebulaGraph vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. NebulaGraph vs. Snowflake vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed, linear scalable, high perfomant Graph DBMS

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

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	2.23
Rank	#116	Overall
	#10	Graph DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

github.com/vesoft-inc/nebula
www.nebula-graph.io

www.snowflake.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.nebula-graph.io

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Manticore Software

Vesoft Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2017

2019

2014

2022

Current release

6.0, February 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0 + Common Clause 1.0

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

Strong typed schema

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Nebula Graph internally uses the Key-Value store RocksDB for persistency. The vertices, edges, and their properties are stored as Key while their values are stored as Value. The primary indexes are per Key and secondary indexes are per Value.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

Browser interface
console (shell)
Cypher Query Language
GO Object Graph Mapper
Java Object Graph Mapper
NGBatis

ORM framework for NebulaGraph and Spring-Boot
Proprietary native API
Python Object Graph Mapper
Query language nGQL

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Go
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Causal Clustering using Raft protocol

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

Relationships in graphs

yes

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

using RocksDB

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

Role-based access control

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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