DBMS > 4D vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP HANA vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Manticore Search vs. SAP HANA vs. searchxml

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.37
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.4d.com

manticoresearch.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

help.sap.com/hana

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

4D, Inc

Manticore Software

SAP

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

1984

2017

2010

2015

Current release

v20, April 2023

6.0, February 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

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

yes

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

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

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

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

SQLScript, R

yes

on the application server

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

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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