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System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. Manticore Search vs. MarkLogic vs. mSQL vs. Sphinx

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NameHazelcast  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA widely adopted in-memory data gridMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databasemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoJSON support with IMDG 3.12Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.97
Rank#57  Overall
#6  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score5.92
Rank#58  Overall
#10  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#6  Search engines
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitehazelcast.commanticoresearch.comwww.marklogic.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationhazelcast.org/­imdg/­docsmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.marklogic.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperHazelcastManticore SoftwareMarkLogic Corp.Hughes TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20082017200119942001
Current release5.3.6, November 20236.0, February 202311.0, December 20224.4, October 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++CC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyesno
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.yes infothe object must implement a serialization strategyCan index from XMLyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL92A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoEvent Listeners, Executor Servicesuser defined functionsyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptnono
Triggersyes infoEventsnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding 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 nodesyes infoReplicated MapSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user infoRaft Consensus AlgorithmImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataone or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commitedyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
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.yesyes, with Range Indexesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsnono

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