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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Faircom DB vs. Manticore Search vs. Memgraph vs. Sphinx

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engineGraph DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebangdb.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbmanticoresearch.commemgraph.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlmanual.manticoresearch.commemgraph.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBFairCom CorporationManticore SoftwareMemgraph LtdSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20121979201720172001
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021V12, November 20206.0, February 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++ANSI C, C++C++C and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,Fixed schemaschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesno
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 indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++user defined functionsno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication using RAFTnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDtunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infowith snapshot isolationno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesnoUsers, roles and permissionsno
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