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DBMS > Manticore Search vs. Qdrant vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx vs. Valentina Server

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Qdrant vs. searchxml vs. Sphinx vs. Valentina Server

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NameManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesObject-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelSearch engineVector DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Search 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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#327  Overall
#145  Relational DBMS
Websitemanticoresearch.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.searchxml.net/­category/­productssphinxsearch.comwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationmanual.manticoresearch.comqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutssphinxsearch.com/­docsvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
DeveloperManticore SoftwareQdrantinformationpartners gmbhSphinx Technologies Inc.Paradigma Software
Initial release20172021201520011999
Current release6.0, February 20231.03.5.1, February 20235.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++RustC++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
WindowsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeFixed schemaschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyesnoyes
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 XMLnoyes
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
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
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Proprietary protocolODBC
Supported programming languagesElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoon the application servernoyes
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryCollection-level replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesmultiple readers, single writerno
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 infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoKey-based authenticationDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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