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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. PouchDB vs. TerminusDB vs. TimescaleDB

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NameManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelSearch engineDocument storeGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
RDF store
Relational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitemanticoresearch.compouchdb.comterminusdb.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationmanual.manticoresearch.compouchdb.com/­guidesterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.timescale.com
DeveloperManticore SoftwareApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.Timescale
Initial release2017201220182017
Current release6.0, February 20237.1.1, June 201911.0.0, January 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptProlog, RustC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeFixed schemaschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannoyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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 XMLnonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
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
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyesyesyes
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-loungeGraph Partitioningyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
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
Journaling StreamsSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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 backendyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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