DBMS > Manticore Search vs. MarkLogic vs. OpenSearch vs. Quasardb vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. MarkLogic vs. OpenSearch vs. Quasardb vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

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

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

manticoresearch.com

www.marklogic.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

quasar.ai

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.marklogic.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

doc.quasar.ai/master

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Manticore Software

MarkLogic Corp.

Amazon Web Services

quasardb

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2017

2001

2021

2009

2004

Current release

6.0, February 2023

11.0, December 2022

2.5.0, January 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

integer and binary

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

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

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

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

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

by using LevelDB

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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