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System Properties Comparison EDB Postgres vs. Geode vs. Machbase Neo vs. Manticore Search vs. Sphinx

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NameEDB Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#135  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.enterprisedb.comgeode.apache.orgmachbase.commanticoresearch.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.enterprisedb.com/­docsgeode.apache.org/­docsmachbase.com/­dbmsmanual.manticoresearch.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperEnterpriseDBOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.MachbaseManticore SoftwareSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20052002201320172001
Current release14, December 20211.1, February 2017V8.0, August 20236.0, February 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoBSD for PostgreSQL-componentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanno
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.yes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nonoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoby hash, list or rangeShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes 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.noyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definablesimple password-based access controlnono

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