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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. SiteWhere vs. TigerGraph vs. Vertica vs. Vitess

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

www.tigergraph.com

www.vertica.com

vitess.io

Technical documentation

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

vertica.com/documentation

vitess.io/docs

Developer

FatCloud

SiteWhere

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2012

2010

2017

2005

2013

Current release

12.0.3, January 2023

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

yes

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

HTTP REST

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes, called Custom Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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