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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. RDF4J vs. Splunk vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

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

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Analytics Platform for Big Data

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	86.45
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

rdf4j.org

www.splunk.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Manticore Software

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Splunk Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2017

2004

2003

2019

Current release

6.0, February 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP REST

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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