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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. IRONdb vs. Manticore Search

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	2.68
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#317	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

manticoresearch.com

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

manual.manticoresearch.com

Developer

4D, Inc

Circonus LLC.

Manticore Software

Initial release

1984

2017

Current release

v20, April 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Fixed schema

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

HTTP API

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

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

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

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.

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

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