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DBMS > Elasticsearch vs. EXASOL vs. Machbase Neo vs. Manticore Search vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. EXASOL vs. Machbase Neo vs. Manticore Search vs. RDF4J

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score134.78
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score2.25
Rank#120  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#324  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#317  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.exasol.commachbase.commanticoresearch.comrdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.exasol.com/­resourcesmachbase.com/­dbmsmanual.manticoresearch.comrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperElasticExasolMachbaseManticore SoftwareSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20102000201320172004
Current release8.6, January 2023V8.0, August 20236.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercialcommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesFixed schemayes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nononoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Lua
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlnono

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