DBMS > Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. MonetDB vs. Redis vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. MonetDB vs. Redis vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Popular in-memory data platform used as a cache, message broker, and database that can be deployed on-premises, across clouds, and hybrid environments

Redis focuses on performance so most of its design decisions prioritize high performance and very low latencies.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Multiple data types and a rich set of operations, as well as configurable data expiration, eviction and persistence

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store

with RedisJSON
Graph DBMS

with RedisGraph
Spatial DBMS
Search engine

with RediSearch
Time Series DBMS

with RedisTimeSeries
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	157.80
Rank	#6	Overall
	#1	Key-value stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.redis.com/latest/index.html
redis.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Manticore Software

MonetDB BV

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2017

2019

2004

2009

2013

Current release

6.0, February 2023

2.3.4, January 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

7.2.4, January 2024

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Redis Enterprise

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

Linux

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

with RediSearch module

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

with RediSQL module

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

Lua; Redis Functions coming in Redis 7 (slides and Github)

Triggers

yes

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Automatic hash-based sharding with support for hash-tags for manual sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

through RedisGears

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Causal consistency can be enabled in Active-Active databases
Strong consistency with Redis Raft
Strong eventual consistency with Active-Active

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists (ACLs): redis.io/docs/management/security/acl
LDAP and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) for Redis Enterprise
Mutual TLS authentication: redis.io/docs/management/security/encryption
Password-based authentication

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