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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. SpaceTime vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	6.03
Rank	#60	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

manticoresearch.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

manual.manticoresearch.com

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Manticore Software

Mireo

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2017

2020

2001

Current release

6.0, February 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
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

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

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