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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Qdrant vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS

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NameManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelSearch engineVector DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitemanticoresearch.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
sphinxsearch.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationmanual.manticoresearch.comqdrant.tech/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperManticore SoftwareQdrantSphinx Technologies Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2017202120012012
Current release6.0, February 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++RustC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeFixed schemaschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleannoyes
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 infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Proprietary protocolJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryCollection-level replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency, tunable consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoKey-based authenticationnono

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