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DBMS > 4D vs. Cassandra vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Cassandra vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Pinecone

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibrarySpatial DBMS
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Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score27.71
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comcassandra.apache.orgmanticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestmanual.manticoresearch.comlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookManticore SoftwareMicrosoftPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release19842008201720142019
Current releasev20, April 20234.1.3, July 20236.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes infoJSON typesString, Number, Boolean
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 XMLno
Secondary indexesyesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by default
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Proprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsJavaScript
TriggersyesyesnoJavaScript
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item level
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionCassandraManticore SearchMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDBPinecone
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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