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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Heroic vs. Infobright vs. Memgraph

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
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Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

memgraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

spotify.github.io/heroic

memgraph.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Spotify

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2015

2014

2005

2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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