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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Oracle vs. Quasardb vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

www.oracle.com/database

quasar.ai

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Manticore Software

Oracle

quasardb

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2017

1980

2009

1998

Current release

6.0, February 2023

23c, September 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

integer and binary

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

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

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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

by using LevelDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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