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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used RDBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database

sqream.com

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Manticore Software

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2017

1989

1984

1980

2017

Current release

6.0, February 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

23c, September 2023

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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