DBMS > Manticore Search vs. ObjectBox vs. PouchDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. ObjectBox vs. PouchDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQLite

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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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.objectbox.io

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Manticore Software

ObjectBox Limited

Apache Software Foundation

SADAS s.r.l.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2012

2006

2000

Current release

6.0, February 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

8.0

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

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

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

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

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

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

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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