DBMS > Manticore Search vs. OpenSearch vs. Qdrant vs. Sphinx vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. OpenSearch vs. Qdrant vs. Sphinx vs. Vertica

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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

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Score	10.06
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

sphinxsearch.com

www.vertica.com

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

qdrant.tech/documentation

sphinxsearch.com/docs

vertica.com/documentation

Developer

Manticore Software

Amazon Web Services

Qdrant

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Initial release

2017

2021

2001

2005

Current release

6.0, February 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Fixed schema

schema-free

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

schema-free

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

full-text index on all search fields

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

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

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

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

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

Collection-level replication

none

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

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, 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

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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx 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

Key-based authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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