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DBMS > Apache Druid vs. IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Apache Druid vs. IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. Sphinx vs. SQL.JS

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NameApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSSearch engineSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitedruid.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/manticoresearch.comsphinxsearch.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmanual.manticoresearch.comsphinxsearch.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsCirconus LLC.Manticore SoftwareSphinx Technologies Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release20122017201720012012
Current release29.0.1, April 2024V0.10.20, January 20186.0, February 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache license v2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Unix
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedschema-freeFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsInt, 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.nonoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL for queryingSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Proprietary protocolJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesClojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luauser defined functionsnono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.no infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnononono

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