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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. MonetDB vs. Qdrant

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Fully managed big data interactive analytics platformA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.49
Rank#261  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#7  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
manticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorerwww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docsmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsManticore SoftwareMicrosoftMonetDB BVQdrant
Initial release20232017201920042021
Current release1.0, March 20236.0, February 2023cloud service with continuous releasesDec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoGPL version 2commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++CRust
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemescheme-freeFixed schemaFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noCan index from XMLyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Ryes, in SQL, C, R
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalitynoyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationnoAzure Active Directory Authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authentication

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