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DBMS > Faircom DB vs. Ingres vs. Manticore Search vs. OushuDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. Ingres vs. Manticore Search vs. OushuDB vs. Sphinx

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Well established RDBMSMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch 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
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.04
Rank#363  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmanticoresearch.comwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingresmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.oushu.com/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperFairCom CorporationActian CorporationManticore SoftwareOushuSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release19791974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20172001
Current releaseV12, November 202011.2, May 20226.0, February 20234.0.1, August 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++CC++C++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesInt, 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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query languageFull-featured ANSI SQL supportSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioninghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Ingres ReplicatorSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes 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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoKerberos, SSL and role based accessno

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