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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. PouchDB vs. RDFox vs. Sphinx

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NameManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Search engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#14  RDF stores
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitemanticoresearch.compouchdb.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationmanual.manticoresearch.compouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.oxfordsemantic.techsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperManticore SoftwareApache Software FoundationOxford Semantic TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2017201220172001
Current release6.0, February 20237.1.1, June 20196.0, Septermber 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptC++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFixed schemaschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannoyesno
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 XMLno
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infovia viewsyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScriptC
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
replication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRoles, resources, and access typesno

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