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DBMS > EJDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Sphinx vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Sphinx vs. TerarkDB

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineSearch engineKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbmanticoresearch.comsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdmanual.manticoresearch.comsphinxsearch.com/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperSoftmotionsManticore SoftwareSphinx Technologies Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2012201720012016
Current release6.0, February 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-lessFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannono
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.Can index from XMLno
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Proprietary protocolC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononono

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