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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Access vs. Sphinx

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.bigchaindb.commanticoresearch.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesssphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestmanual.manticoresearch.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperManticore SoftwareMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2016201719922001
Current release6.0, February 20231902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoGPL version 2commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoInt, 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.noCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no

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