DBMS > Manticore Search vs. Quasardb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Quasardb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

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

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

quasar.ai

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

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

doc.quasar.ai/master

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Manticore Software

quasardb

SAP

formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2009

1992

2014

Current release

6.0, February 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

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

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

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

consistent hashing

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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