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Manticore Search

by Manticore Software Ltd.

System Card

OrganizationManticore Software Ltd.
Released2017-01
Architecturevector-rag / open-source SQL search engine with vector
DetailsManticore Search is an open-source full-text search engine (Sphinx Search fork) that added HNSW-based vector search in version 6.3.0 (May 2024). It uses SQL as its native query language and is compatible with MySQL protocol. Combines full-text, faceted, geo-spatial, and vector search in one engine with real-time indexing. Acts as a drop-in Elasticsearch alternative.
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Domainrag-retrieval
Open SourceYes
WebsiteVisit
full-textSQLElasticsearch-alternativeHNSWreal-time-indexing

Capability Profile

Benchmark Scores

5 of 14 benchmarks
Data Transparency:5 estimated
Long-Context Retrieval
2/5
RULER
66.410pEstimated
NIAH
no data
LooGLE
no data
LongBench
603pEstimated
∞Bench
no data
Multi-Turn Recall
0/2
LoCoMo
no data
MemoryBank
no data
Cross-Session Memory
0/1
LongMemEval
no data
Multi-Hop QA
2/3
BABILong
no data
MultiHop-RAG
62.310pEstimated
HotpotQA
62.822pEstimated
Agent Task Memory
0/1
AgentBench-Mem
no data
Personalization
0/1
PerLTQA
no data
Factuality / Grounding
1/1
RAGAS
64.922pEstimated
Sources:Arena estimate — derived from capability profile, not independently verified