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DBMS > 4D vs. Datomic vs. Manticore Search vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Datomic vs. Manticore Search vs. ObjectBox

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#317  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comwww.datomic.commanticoresearch.comobjectbox.io
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdocs.datomic.commanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.objectbox.io
Developer4D, IncCognitectManticore SoftwareObjectBox Limited
Initial release1984201220172017
Current releasev20, April 20231.0.6735, June 20236.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJava, ClojureC++C and C++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Clojure
Java
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsuser defined functionsno
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnonoyes
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