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System Properties Comparison CouchDB vs. Manticore Search vs. SiriDB vs. Sphinx

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NameCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Open Source Time Series DBMSOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitecouchdb.apache.orgmanticoresearch.comsiridb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablemanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.siridb.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerManticore SoftwareCesbitSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2005201720172001
Current release3.3.3, December 20236.0, February 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageErlangC++CC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
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, Booleanyes infoNumeric datano
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 XMLno
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenosimple rights management via user accountsno

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