DBMS > Manticore Search vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sadas Engine vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. OpenSearch vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sadas Engine vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

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

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Manticore Software

Amazon Web Services

Oracle

SADAS s.r.l.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2017

2021

2007

2006

2019

Current release

6.0, February 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

14.1, August 2023

8.0

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Live Events

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

configurable

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

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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