Manticore Search
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Manticore Search, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Manticore Search's own pricing page, checked 7 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Community | Free | Free config review · public support on forum, Slack, Telegram, and GitHub |
| Enterprise | Priced on request | All Standard features · private dedicated chat · feature engineering · custom private branch maintenance · Page says “Pricier”; enquire for pricing |
| Standard | Priced on request | SLA response times · technical account manager · consulting · expedited bug fixing · knowledge base access · Page says “Cheaper”; enquire for pricing |
The facts
Each one read from Manticore Search's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Data sources
- It can read from MySQL, Postgres, MSSQL, ODBC, XML, CSV, and TSV out of the box.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- The installation guide provides Linux and macOS installation, Windows installation options, and Docker deployment.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The site lists integrations including Logstash, Apache Superset, Grafana, Fluentbit, Kibana, Vector.dev, and Elasticsearch dump.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Product
- Manticore Search is an open-source search database for full-text, vector, hybrid, real-time indexing, and analytical queries.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Professional services
- The Standard plan describes SLA response times, a technical account manager, consulting, and expedited bug fixing; Enterprise adds feature engineering and a private chat.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Query interfaces
- It supports SQL, the MySQL protocol, and JSON APIs.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Search features
- Its full-text capabilities include fuzzy matching, query suggestions, filtering, faceting, stemming, lemmatization, synonyms, and highlighting.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Security
- Authentication and authorization are opt-in and support SQL/MySQL, HTTP/HTTPS, and replication-related access.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Security caveat
- The manual says binary API connections are not secured by SSL and advises keeping API-capable listeners off the public Internet.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Support
- The Community subscription includes public support channels and a free configuration review by the Manticore core team.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Vector search
- Vector search uses KNN with HNSW and supports cosine similarity, inner product, and squared L2 distance.checked 7 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2017checked 23 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Chatham, Kent, United Kingdomchecked 23 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Windows limitation
- Native Windows binaries require Docker for Manticore Buddy and do not support replication; the site recommends WSL2 for compatibility.checked 7 Oct 2026
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