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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. RDFox vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Search engine

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Manticore Software

Oxford Semantic Technologies

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2018

Current release

6.0, February 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

RDF schemas

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

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

C
Java

JavaScript
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

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

replication via a shared file system

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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

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 journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Roles, resources, and access types

Role-based access control

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