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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GBase vs. Manticore Search vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

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	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

4D, Inc

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Manticore Software

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

1984

2004

2017

2014

Current release

v20, April 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

6.0, February 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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