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DBMS > 4D vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Manticore Search vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.80
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score5.72
Rank#66  Overall
#8  Search engines
Score30.39
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Websitewww.4d.commanticoresearch.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-db
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.commanual.manticoresearch.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchlearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-db
Developer4D, IncManticore SoftwareMicrosoftMicrosoft
Initial release1984201720152014
Current releasev20, April 20236.0, February 2023V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeyesFixed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes infoJSON types
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.yesCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by default
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP APIDocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoJavaScript
TriggersyesnonoJavaScript
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes 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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsnoyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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