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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. PouchDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Spatial extension of SQLite

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

manticoresearch.com

pouchdb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

pouchdb.com/guides

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Manticore Software

Apache Software Foundation

Alessandro Furieri

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2017

2012

2008

2011

Current release

6.0, February 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

5.0.0, August 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

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

server-less

Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

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

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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 capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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