DBMS > Manticore Search vs. NSDb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. NSDb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. RocksDB vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

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

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

nsdb.io

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

rocksdb.org

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Manticore Software

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2017

2011

2013

2014

Current release

6.0, February 2023

24.1, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

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

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Scala

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

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

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

optional

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Scala

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

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

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

yes

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.

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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