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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. PostGIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	4.06
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

postgis.net/documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Manticore Software

Timescale

Initial release

2017

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2017

Current release

6.0, February 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

10 R1, October 2018

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

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

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

yes

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

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

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

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

Supported programming languages

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

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

horizontal partitioning

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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