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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Manticore Search vs. TigerGraph

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantmanticoresearch.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperCognitectSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Manticore Software
Initial release20122014201020172017
Current release1.0.7075, December 20236.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaErlangC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nononoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction FunctionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsyes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoRole-based access control

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