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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. PouchDB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#377	Overall
	#58	Key-value stores

Website

manticoresearch.com

pouchdb.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

pouchdb.com/guides

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Manticore Software

Apache Software Foundation

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2017

2012

2016

Current release

6.0, February 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version 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)

Data scheme

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

C++ API
Java 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

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

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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