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DBMS > Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. Memgraph vs. RDF4J vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. Memgraph vs. RDF4J vs. TypeDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSRDF storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.00
Rank#102  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.81
Rank#217  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#99  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/memgraph.comrdf4j.orgtypedb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedmemgraph.com/­docsrdf4j.org/­documentationtypedb.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperSpotifyCirconus LLC.Memgraph LtdSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Vaticle
Initial release20142017201720042016
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20182.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree license availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and schema-optionalyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes
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 indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP APIBolt protocol
Cypher query language
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
PHP
Python
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luayesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication using RAFTnoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationships in graphsno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infowith snapshot isolationACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers, roles and permissionsnoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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HeroicIRONdbMemgraphRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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TypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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TypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Life sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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Apache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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