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DBMS > Manticore Search vs. Riak TS vs. Splunk vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Riak TS vs. Splunk vs. TimescaleDB

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NameManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVAnalytics Platform for Big DataA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitemanticoresearch.comwww.splunk.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperManticore SoftwareOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSplunk Inc.Timescale
Initial release2017201520032017
Current release6.0, February 20233.0.0, September 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Sourcecommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeFixed schemaschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannoyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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 XMLnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes, limitedno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsErlangyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between datasets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
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
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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