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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. ObjectBox vs. Sphinx vs. VelocityDB

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NameManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSearch engineObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Search engineGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitemanticoresearch.comgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
sphinxsearch.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.objectbox.iosphinxsearch.com/­docsvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperManticore SoftwareObjectBox LimitedSphinx Technologies Inc.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release2017201720012011
Current release6.0, February 20234.0 (May 2024)3.5.1, February 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C and C++C++C#
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeFixed schemayesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes, plus "flex" map-like typesnoyes
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.Can index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Proprietary native APIProprietary protocol.Net
Supported programming languagesElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
TriggersnononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnoBased on Windows Authentication
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