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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Interbase vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Sphinx

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineWide column storeSearch 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
Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitebangdb.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemanticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablessphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemanual.manticoresearch.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBEmbarcaderoManticore SoftwareMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20121984201720122001
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 2021InterBase 2020, December 20196.0, February 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++CC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFixed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesInt, 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.nono infoexport as XML data possibleCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyesSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding 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)Interbase Change ViewsSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesoptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes 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 modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesno

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