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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TDengine vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TDengine vs. TigerGraph

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  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 enginedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBTime Series DBMS and big data platformA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iohive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
www.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.tdengine.comdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperMicrosoftApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20102012201020192017
Current release3.1.3, April 20223.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation language.NET and CJavaErlangCC++
Server operating systems.NETAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnonoyesyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesRole-based access control
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Graph Engine infoformer name: TrinityHiveIBM CloudantTDengineTigerGraph
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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