DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Manticore Search vs. Qdrant vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Manticore Search vs. Qdrant vs. Sphinx vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

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

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

manticoresearch.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

sphinxsearch.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

manual.manticoresearch.com

qdrant.tech/documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Manticore Software

Qdrant

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Transwarp

Initial release

2012

2017

2021

2001

Current release

6.0, February 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Proprietary protocol

OpenCypher

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Collection-level replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

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

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx 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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

yes

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