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System Properties Comparison Faircom DB vs. Manticore Search vs. PouchDB vs. Qdrant vs. Sphinx

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NameFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  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.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Search engineDocument storeVector 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
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.16
Rank#175  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbmanticoresearch.compouchdb.comgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlmanual.manticoresearch.compouchdb.com/­guidesqdrant.tech/­documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperFairCom CorporationManticore SoftwareApache Software FoundationQdrantSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release19792017201220212001
Current releaseV12, November 20206.0, February 20237.1.1, June 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C++JavaScriptRustC++
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,Fixed schemaschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleannoNumbers, Strings, Geo, 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.noCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infovia viewsyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
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
JavaScript.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
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++user defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingSharding 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).Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Collection-level replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes 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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesnonoKey-based authenticationno

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