DBMS > CouchDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Manticore Search vs. MySQL

System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Manticore Search vs. MySQL

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Name

Description

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	9.30
Rank	#45	Overall
	#7	Document stores

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#269	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Website

couchdb.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

manticoresearch.com

www.mysql.com

Technical documentation

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

manual.manticoresearch.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

InterSystems

Kyligence, Inc.

Manticore Software

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Initial release

2005

2018

2016

2017

1995

Current release

3.3.3, December 2023

2023.3, June 2023

6.0, February 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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