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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Infobright vs. searchxml vs. TerminusDB vs. TinkerGraph

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsterminusdb.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSpotifyIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.informationpartners gmbhDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20142005201520182009
Current release1.011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++Prolog, RustJava
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoon the application serveryesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneGraph Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsJournaling Streamsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDmultiple readers, single writerACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesRole-based access controlno

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