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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. searchxml vs. Sequoiadb vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Search engine

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

manticoresearch.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.sequoiadb.com

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Manticore Software

informationpartners gmbh

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2017

2015

2013

2003

Current release

6.0, February 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

JavaScript

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

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

multiple readers, single writer

Document is locked during a transaction

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 capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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