DBMS > Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

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

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

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

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Manticore Software

Microsoft

Oracle

SAP, Sybase

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2017

1989

2011

1987

2014

Current release

6.0, February 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

23.3, December 2023

16.0

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

optional

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

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)

RESTful HTTP API

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

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

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

Java and Transact-SQL

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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