DBMS > IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

manticoresearch.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Manticore Software

Microsoft

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2010

2017

2010

2021

Current release

6.0, February 2023

V12

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes, with always 3 replicas available

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Competitive advantages

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