DBMS > HarperDB vs. Manticore Search vs. MongoDB vs. Qdrant vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison HarperDB vs. Manticore Search vs. MongoDB vs. Qdrant vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

Ultra-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.

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

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	421.65
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.harperdb.io

manticoresearch.com

www.mongodb.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.harperdb.io/docs

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

qdrant.tech/documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

HarperDB

Manticore Software

MongoDB, Inc

Qdrant

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2017

2009

2021

2001

Current release

3.1, August 2021

6.0, February 2023

6.0.7, June 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

Node.js

C++

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

Fixed schema

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

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

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 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

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

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

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

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

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

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomic execution of specific operations

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, using LMDB

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Key-based authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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