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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Memcached vs. Qdrant vs. Sphinx

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NameManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeVector DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#317  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score20.74
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.23
Rank#171  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitemanticoresearch.comwww.memcached.orggithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationmanual.manticoresearch.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiqdrant.tech/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperManticore SoftwareDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalQdrantSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2017200320212001
Current release6.0, February 20231.6.25, March 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++CRustC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFixed schemaschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleannoNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanno
XML support infoSome 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 XMLno
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Proprietary protocolgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.noyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolKey-based authenticationno

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