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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Manticore Search vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	3.63
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

manticoresearch.com

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

manual.manticoresearch.com

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Actian Corporation

Manticore Software

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

2012

Current release

12.0, July 2024

6.0, February 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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