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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Manticore Search vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Sphinx

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.52
Rank#254  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/manticoresearch.comwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Manticore SoftwarePerconaSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2017201720152001
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20186.0, February 20233.4.10-2.10, November 20173.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsInt, 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.noCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
proprietary protocol using JSONProprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luauser defined functionsJavaScriptno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSynchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
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 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.noyes infovia In-Memory Engine
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and rolesno

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