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System Properties Comparison IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Sphinx

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NameIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-based data warehousing serviceMulti-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 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
Score1.34
Rank#166  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#317  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.08
Rank#187  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score6.03
Rank#60  Overall
#6  Search engines
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousemanticoresearch.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperIBMManticore SoftwareOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2014201719842001
Current release6.0, February 20237.4.1.1, 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
HP Open VMSFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesFixed schemaFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, 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.no infoImport/export of XML data possibleCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPL/SQL, SQL PLuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding 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 nodesyesSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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