DBMS > Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. mSQL vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. mSQL vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

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

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Manticore Software

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2017

1989

1994

Current release

6.0, February 2023

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

4.4, October 2021

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

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

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

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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