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System Properties Comparison Kingbase vs. Manticore Search vs. TerminusDB vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.44
Rank	#258	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#338	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Manticore Software

DataChemist Ltd.

Ultipa

Initial release

1999

2017

2018

2019

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

6.0, February 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

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

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

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

JavaScript
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

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

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

in-memory journaling

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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