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DBMS > 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Manticore Search vs. ObjectBox vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Manticore Search vs. ObjectBox vs. Weaviate

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeSearch engineObject oriented DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryTime Series DBMS
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storemanticoresearch.comobjectbox.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoremanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.objectbox.ioweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Developer4D, IncAlibabaManticore SoftwareObjectBox LimitedWeaviate B.V.
Initial release19842016201720172019
Current releasev20, April 20236.0, February 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Go
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFixed schemayesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
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.yesnoCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query languagenoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Proprietary native APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Java
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-row operationsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionAlibaba Cloud Table StoreManticore SearchObjectBoxWeaviate
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersAll companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsWeaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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