DBMS > Manticore Search vs. Newts vs. OpenSearch vs. Rockset vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Newts vs. OpenSearch vs. Rockset vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

manticoresearch.com

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

rockset.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Manticore Software

OpenNMS Group

Amazon Web Services

Rockset

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2017

2014

2021

2019

2018

Current release

6.0, February 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

Fixed schema

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

Atomic execution of operations

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

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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