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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache IoTDB vs. KairosDB vs. Manticore Search

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An IoT native database with high performance for data management and analysis, deployable on the edge and the cloud and integrated with Hadoop, Spark and Flink

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#164	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#233	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

iotdb.apache.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

manticoresearch.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

iotdb.apache.org/UserGuide/Master/QuickStart/QuickStart.html

kairosdb.github.io

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Apache Software Foundation

Manticore Software

Initial release

1984

2018

2013

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

1.1.0, April 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM (>= 1.8)

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
Native API

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

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

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by time range) + vertical partitioning (by deviceId)

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

selectable replication methods; using Raft/IoTConsensus algorithm to ensure strong/eventual data consistency among multiple replicas

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Integration with Hadoop and Spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Strong Consistency with Raft

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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.

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

yes

simple password-based access control

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