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DBMS > HarperDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Manticore Search vs. Qdrant vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Manticore Search vs. Qdrant vs. Sphinx

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NameHarperDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Search engineVector DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score0.55
Rank#248  Overall
#38  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.harperdb.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storemanticoresearch.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.harperdb.io/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storemanual.manticoresearch.comqdrant.tech/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperHarperDBIBMManticore SoftwareQdrantSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20172017201720212001
Current release3.1, August 20212.06.0, February 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageNode.jsC and C++C++RustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemayesFixed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoJSON data typesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanno
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.nonoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like data manipulation statementsyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresCustom Functions infosince release 3.1yesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a clusterShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be definedActive-active shard replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using LMDBYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoKey-based authenticationno

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