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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. RDF4J vs. searchxml vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

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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.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Search engine

RDF store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

rdf4j.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

swaydb.simer.au

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Manticore Software

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

informationpartners gmbh

Simer Plaha

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

2004

2015

2018

1987

Current release

6.0, February 2023

1.0

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
PHP
Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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 support depends on the API used

multiple readers, single writer

Atomic execution of operations

yes

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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