DBMS > Manticore Search vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Rockset vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

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

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

rockset.com

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

www.snowflake.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Manticore Software

Rockset

SAP

formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2017

2019

1992

2014

2017

Current release

6.0, February 2023

17, July 2015

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

dynamic typing

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

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

Automatic sharding

none

yes

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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