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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. PostGIS vs. RavenDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.01
Rank	#101	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Website

manticoresearch.com

postgis.net

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

postgis.net/documentation

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Manticore Software

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2017

2005

2010

Current release

6.0, February 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

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
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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