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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic vs. Ingres vs. TigerGraph

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NameApache Phoenix  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBaseGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchWell established RDBMSA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score2.06
Rank#123  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitephoenix.apache.orgwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationphoenix.apache.orgwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperApache Software FoundationCCRi and othersSpotifyActian Corporation
Initial release2014201420141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2017
Current release5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 20195.0.0, May 202411.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infolate-bound, schema-on-read capabilitiesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonoyesyes
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
depending on storage layeryesIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsHadoop integrationyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesdepending on storage layernonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancyyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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