DBMS > 4D vs. Amazon Aurora vs. GeoSpock vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Amazon Aurora vs. GeoSpock vs. Manticore Search vs. RocksDB

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by Amazon

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#51	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.4d.com

aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora

geospock.com

manticoresearch.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/CHAP_Aurora.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

4D, Inc

Amazon

GeoSpock

Manticore Software

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

1984

2015

2017

2013

Current release

v20, April 2023

2.0, September 2019

6.0, February 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

yes

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Sharding

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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

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

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per table

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