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DBMS > Manticore Search vs. Pinecone vs. Qdrant vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Pinecone vs. Qdrant vs. RDF4J

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NameManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelSearch engineVector DBMSVector DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitemanticoresearch.comwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
rdf4j.org
Technical documentationmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewqdrant.tech/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperManticore SoftwarePinecone Systems, IncQdrantSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2017201920212004
Current release6.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++RustJava
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeFixed schemaschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanString, Number, BooleanNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
XML support infoSome 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 XMLnono
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Python.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryCollection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoKey-based authenticationno

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