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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb vs. TigerGraph

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.62
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score2.73
Rank#108  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score19.15
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score1.83
Rank#141  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantspark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperMicrosoftIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release20102010201420112017
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation language.NET and CErlangScalaC#C++
Server operating systems.NEThostedLinux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonoRole-based access control

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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityIBM CloudantSpark SQLSTSdbTigerGraph
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