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System Properties Comparison Machbase vs. Manticore Search vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Multi-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 model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.01
Rank	#348	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#326	Overall
	#20	Search engines

Score	6.72
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Website

www.machbase.com

manticoresearch.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

endoc.machbase.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Machbase

Manticore Software

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2013

2017

2001

Current release

V6.5, August 2021

4.2, December 2021

3.4.1, July 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
JDBC
ODBC

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

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

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

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

Machbase is an extremely fast time series database which processes large volumes...
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Competitive advantages

Fastest Database for IIoT, Independently verified, on Industry Standard Benchmarks....
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Typical application scenarios

Distributed Query In Machbase Cluster Edition, a broker node, which is responsible...
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Key customers

Machbase has over 50 customers, including Samsung, POSCO, and Hyundai.
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Market metrics

Real-time data processing Real-time index creation Optimized DBMS for processing...
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Licensing and pricing models

Machbase provide several product editions, including: Intelligent Edge Device, Fog...
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