DBMS > Manticore Search vs. MongoDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak KV vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. MongoDB vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak KV vs. Speedb

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Name

Description

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

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	421.08
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

rethinkdb.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Manticore Software

MongoDB, Inc

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Speedb

Initial release

2017

2009

2020

Current release

6.0, February 2023

6.0.7, June 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

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

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Sharding

range based

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

links between data sets can be stored

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

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Atomic single-document operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

users and table-level permissions

yes, using Riak Security

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