Datafari vs Manticore Search

Datafari is an open-source enterprise search solution made by France Labs for finding company data across sources and formats. Its crawlers collect content and metadata, with configurable processing filters and crawl-load management. Listed sources include NetApp, Windows and Samba file shares, Dropbox, Liferay, Alfresco, SharePoint, Documentum, FileNet, CMIS, databases, social networks, and email. A plugin mechanism allows connectors for additional sources.

Search features include multilingual support, spellchecking, suggestions, entity extraction, result clustering, alerts, and autocomplete. Relevance can use document content and metadata, query-specific boosts, entity recognition, and user context such as history, clicks, and department. Datafari supports hybrid and vector search, faceted search, and a REST query interface. Neural Datafari adds vector search and retrieval-augmented answers grounded in documents the user is authorized to access. The free Community plan is aimed at developers and DIY users; its support is DIY. The Initial plan costs $9,900 a year and includes customer support.

Manticore Search is an open-source database for full-text, vector, hybrid, real-time indexing, and analytical queries. Applications can use SQL, the MySQL protocol, or JSON APIs. Full-text tools include fuzzy matching, query suggestions, filtering, faceting, stemming, lemmatization, synonyms, and highlighting. Vector search uses KNN with HNSW and supports cosine similarity, inner product, and squared L2 distance. Manticore can read from MySQL, Postgres, MSSQL, ODBC, XML, CSV, and TSV, and lists integrations such as Logstash, Apache Superset, Grafana, Fluentbit, Kibana, Vector.dev, and Elasticsearch dump. Installation options cover Linux, macOS, Windows, and Docker. The site recommends WSL2 for compatibility; native Windows binaries require Docker for Manticore Buddy and do not support replication. Authentication and authorization are opt-in. Binary API connections are not secured by SSL, and the manual advises keeping API-capable listeners off the public Internet. The free Community plan includes public support channels and a configuration review. Standard and Enterprise support plans have prices available by inquiry.