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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. mSQL vs. MySQL vs. Oracle NoSQL

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

milvus.io

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.mysql.com

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

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

dev.mysql.com/doc

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

Developer

Manticore Software

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Oracle

Initial release

2017

2019

1994

1995

2011

Current release

6.0, February 2023

2.4.4, May 2024

4.4, October 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

24.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

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

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

optional

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

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Licensing and pricing models

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