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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. GreptimeDB vs. Manticore Search vs. searchxml vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

greptime.com

manticoresearch.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.greptime.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

4D, Inc

Greptime Inc.

Manticore Software

informationpartners gmbh

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1984

2022

2017

2015

1998

Current release

v20, April 2023

6.0, February 2023

1.0

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

Fixed schema

schema-free

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Python

user defined functions

yes

on the application server

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users and groups

Simple rights management via user accounts

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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