DBMS > Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

nsdb.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Manticore Software

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

2015

2017

2020

1987

Current release

6.0, February 2023

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Scala

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Java
Scala

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica 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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes

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

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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