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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Sphinx vs. VoltDB

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbmanticoresearch.comsphinxsearch.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesmanual.manticoresearch.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperManticore SoftwareSphinx Technologies Inc.VoltDB Inc.
Initial release2019201720012010
Current release6.0, February 20233.5.1, February 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++Java, C++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannoyes
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.noCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Proprietary protocolJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoJava
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoSnapshots and command logging
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnonoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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