DBMS > Manticore Search vs. NCache vs. Qdrant vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. NCache vs. Qdrant vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

qdrant.tech/documentation

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Manticore Software

Alachisoft

Qdrant

SAP

Initial release

2017

2005

2021

2010

Current release

6.0, February 2023

5.3.3, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

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

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

yes

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes, with selectable consistency level

Collection-level replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Key-based authentication

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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