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DBMS > Interbase vs. Manticore Search vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Manticore Search vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Sphinx

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeWide column 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
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemanticoresearch.comwww.memcached.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablessphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemanual.manticoresearch.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikisphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperEmbarcaderoManticore SoftwareDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalMicrosoftSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release19842017200320122001
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20196.0, February 20231.6.27, May 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCC++CC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesFixed schemaschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannoyesno
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 infoexport as XML data possibleCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnonoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnooptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.noyesyes 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-standardnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesno

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