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DBMS > 4D vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Interbase vs. Manticore Search

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Interbase vs. Manticore Search

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.58
Rank#108  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitewww.4d.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasemanual.manticoresearch.com
Developer4D, IncIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014EmbarcaderoManticore Software
Initial release1984201019842017
Current releasev20, April 2023InterBase 2020, December 20196.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangCC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
hostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, 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.yesnono infoexport as XML data possibleCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92noyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functions
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Interbase Change ViewsSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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