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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. ScyllaDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

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

Website

manticoresearch.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.scylladb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Manticore Software

Microsoft

ScyllaDB

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2017

2014

2015

2011

Current release

6.0, February 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

JSON types

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 properties auto-indexed by default

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

yes, Lua

Triggers

JavaScript

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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 capabilities

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

yes

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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