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DBMS > 4D vs. Graphite vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Graphite vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL vs. TigerGraph

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.47
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmanticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comgraphite.readthedocs.iomanual.manticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.tigergraph.com
Developer4D, IncChris DavisManticore Software
Initial release1984200620172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2017
Current releasev20, April 20236.0, February 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languagePythonC++CC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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 XMLyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
HTTP API
Sockets
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyesyes
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 groupsnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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