DBMS > Manticore Search vs. MySQL vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. MySQL vs. searchxml vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

www.mysql.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

siridb.com

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Manticore Software

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

informationpartners gmbh

Cesbit

Initial release

2017

1995

2015

2017

Current release

6.0, February 2023

8.3.0, January 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

Numeric data

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

simple rights management via user accounts

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