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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

manticoresearch.com

www.postgres-xl.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Manticore Software

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1998

Current release

6.0, February 2023

10 R1, October 2018

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
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

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

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

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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