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System Properties Comparison Coveo vs. Manticore Search vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.14
Rank	#116	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

www.coveo.com

manticoresearch.com

www.memcached.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

docs.coveo.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Coveo

Manticore Software

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

Initial release

2012

2017

2003

1989

Current release

6.0, February 2023

1.6.29, June 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

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

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

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

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

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

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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