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System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Manticore Search vs. Qdrant vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSSearch engineVector DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.geomesa.orgmanticoresearch.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.searchxml.net/­category/­productssphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlmanual.manticoresearch.comqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCCRi and othersManticore SoftwareQdrantinformationpartners gmbhSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20142017202120152001
Current release4.0.5, February 20246.0, February 20231.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageScalaC++RustC++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesFixed schemaschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyesno
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 XMLnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryCollection-level replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesmultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagenoKey-based authenticationDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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