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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Manticore Search vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenMLDB

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.58
Rank	#108	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.objectbox.io

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

Developer

4D, Inc

Manticore Software

ObjectBox Limited

4 Paradigm Inc.

Initial release

1984

2017

2020

Current release

v20, April 2023

6.0, February 2023

2024-2 February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Fixed schema

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

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

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

Proprietary native API

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

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

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

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

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

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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