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DBMS > Datomic vs. Heroic vs. Manticore Search vs. TigerGraph vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. Heroic vs. Manticore Search vs. TigerGraph vs. Titan

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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 ElasticSearchMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#301  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.44
Rank#152  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmanticoresearch.comwww.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comspotify.github.io/­heroicmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperCognitectSpotifyManticore SoftwareAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20122014201720172012
Current release1.0.7180, July 20246.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureJavaC++C++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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.nonoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnouser defined functionsyesyes
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyesSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
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 developmentnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoRole-based access controlUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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