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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Manticore Search vs. Qdrant vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

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

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Search engine

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	135.35
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

manticoresearch.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

qdrant.tech/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Elastic

Manticore Software

Qdrant

SAP

Initial release

2010

2017

2021

2010

Current release

8.6, January 2023

6.0, February 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

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

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Collection-level replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency, tunable 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.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Key-based authentication

yes

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