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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. PostGIS vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.18
Rank	#114	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

postgis.net/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Manticore Software

Apache Software Foundation

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2005

2012

2018

Current release

6.0, February 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

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

Linux

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

yes

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

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Journaling Streams

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

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

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 journaling

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

based on PostgreSQL

Role-based access control

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