DBMS > Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. Redis vs. SAP IQ vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Milvus vs. Redis vs. SAP IQ vs. Transbase

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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

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.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

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

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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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Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	2.31
Rank	#113	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

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

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

milvus.io

redis.com
redis.io

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Manticore Software

Redis project core team, inspired by Salvatore Sanfilippo

Development sponsored by Redis Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

2019

2009

1994

1987

Current release

6.0, February 2023

2.3.4, January 2024

7.2.4, January 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

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

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

ported and maintained by Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Vector, Numeric and String

partial

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

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

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

with RediSearch module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

with RediSQL module

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

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

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#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

yes

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality; RedisGears

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

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

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

Multi-source replication

with Redis Enterprise Pack
Source-replica replication

Chained replication is supported

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

through RedisGears

Hadoop integration

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

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts and optimistic locking

ACID

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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