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System Properties Comparison Machbase Neo vs. MarkLogic vs. PlanetScale vs. PouchDB vs. Sphinx

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NameMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSDocument storeSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitemachbase.comwww.marklogic.complanetscale.compouchdb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationmachbase.com/­dbmsdocs.marklogic.complanetscale.com/­docspouchdb.com/­guidessphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperMachbaseMarkLogic Corp.PlanetScaleApache Software FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20132001202020122001
Current releaseV8.0, August 202311.0, December 20227.1.1, June 20193.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree test version availablecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++GoJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL92yes infowith proprietary extensionsnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScriptC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptyes infoproprietary syntaxView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACID at shard levelnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes 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.yes infovolatile and lookup tableyes, with Range Indexesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnono

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