DBMS > InfluxDB vs. Manticore Search vs. MonetDB vs. MySQL vs. Qdrant

System Properties Comparison InfluxDB vs. Manticore Search vs. MonetDB vs. MySQL vs. Qdrant

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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#7	Vector DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

manticoresearch.com

www.monetdb.org

www.mysql.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Manticore Software

MonetDB BV

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Qdrant

Initial release

2013

2017

2004

1995

2021

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

6.0, February 2023

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

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

yes

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

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

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

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

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Key-based authentication

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