DBMS > Manticore Search vs. OpenSearch vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. OpenSearch vs. Sphinx

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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

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

Primary database model

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.22
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	#21	Search engines

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	5.98
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

manticoresearch.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Manticore Software

Amazon Web Services

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2017

2021

2001

Current release

6.0, February 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

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

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

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

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

none

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

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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