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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

objectbox.io

www.postgres-xl.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.objectbox.io

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Manticore Software

ObjectBox Limited

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2008

Current release

6.0, February 2023

10 R1, October 2018

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

server-less

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

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

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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