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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. BigchainDB vs. Manticore Search vs. TimesTen

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Name	4D former name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparison	BigchainDB  Xexclude from comparison	Manticore Search  Xexclude from comparison	TimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
Description	Application development environment with integrated database management system	BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets	Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.	In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Document store	Search engine	Relational DBMS
Secondary database models			Time Series DBMS using the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 2.83 Rank #106   Overall #55   Relational DBMS	Score 0.77 Rank #199   Overall #32   Document stores	Score 0.08 Rank #323   Overall #20   Search engines	Score 1.69 Rank #138   Overall #68   Relational DBMS
Website	www.4d.com	www.bigchaindb.com	manticoresearch.com	www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentation	livedoc.4d.com	bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latest	manual.manticoresearch.com	docs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
Developer	4D, Inc		Manticore Software	Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release	1984	2016	2017	1998
Current release	v18 R5, January 2021		4.2, December 2021	11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source AGPL v3	Open Source GPL version 2	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language		Python	C++
Server operating systems	OS X Windows	Linux	FreeBSD Linux macOS Windows	AIX HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris SPARC/x86 Windows
Data scheme	yes	schema-free	Fixed schema	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	no	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.	yes	no	Can index from XML	no
Secondary indexes	yes		yes full-text index on all search fields	yes
SQL Support of SQL	yes close to SQL 92	no	SQL-like query language	yes
APIs and other access methods	ODBC RESTful HTTP API by using 4D Mobile SOAP webservices	CLI Client RESTful HTTP API	Binary API RESTful HTTP/JSON API RESTful HTTP/SQL API SQL over MySQL	JDBC ODBC ODP.NET Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languages	4D proprietary IDE PHP	Go Haskell Java JavaScript Python Ruby	Elixir Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python	C C++ Java PL/SQL
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	yes		user defined functions	PL/SQL
Triggers	yes		no	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	none	Sharding	Sharding Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported	none
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	Multi-source replication	selectable replication factor	Synchronous replication based on Galera library	Multi-source replication Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Immediate Consistency			Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys Referential integrity	yes	no	no	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	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB	yes The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.	yes by means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no			yes
User concepts Access control	Users and groups	yes	no	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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