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System Properties Comparison Manticore Search vs. Sphinx

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Name	Manticore Search  Xexclude from comparison	Sphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.	Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database model	Search engine	Search engine
Secondary database models	Time Series DBMS using the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.08 Rank #322   Overall #20   Search engines	Score 7.29 Rank #60   Overall #8   Search engines
Website	manticoresearch.com	sphinxsearch.com
Technical documentation	manual.manticoresearch.com	sphinxsearch.com/­docs
Developer	Manticore Software	Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release	2017	2001
Current release	4.2, December 2021	3.4.1, July 2021
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source GPL version 2	Open Source GPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no
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Implementation language	C++	C++
Server operating systems	FreeBSD Linux macOS Windows	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	no
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	SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methods	Binary API RESTful HTTP/JSON API RESTful HTTP/SQL API SQL over MySQL	Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages	Elixir Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python	C++ unofficial client library Java Perl unofficial client library PHP Python Ruby unofficial client library
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	user defined functions	no
Triggers	no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported	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	none
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no
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	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	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.
User concepts Access control	no	no
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