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DBMS > 4D vs. Manticore Search vs. Riak KV vs. Vertica

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Manticore Search vs. Riak KV vs. Vertica

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS infoColumn oriented
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibrarySpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.80
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score4.95
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score11.76
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.4d.commanticoresearch.comwww.vertica.com
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.commanual.manticoresearch.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestvertica.com/­documentation
Developer4D, IncManticore SoftwareOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard
Initial release1984201720092005
Current releasev20, April 20236.0, February 20233.2.0, December 202212.0.3, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers
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Implementation languageC++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesFixed schemaschema-freeYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannoyes
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 XMLnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsrestrictedNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL-like query languagenoFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.
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
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsErlangyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences
Triggersyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes, called Custom Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infono "single point of failure"horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno infoBi-directional Spark integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACID
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, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionManticore SearchRiak KVVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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