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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Memcached vs. OpenSearch vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

manticoresearch.com

www.memcached.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Manticore Software

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Amazon Web Services

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2017

2003

2021

2011

Current release

6.0, February 2023

1.6.27, May 2024

2.5.0, January 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

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

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary protocol

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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