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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Ingres vs. Memgraph vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchWell established RDBMSAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresmemgraph.comwww.tigergraph.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.actian.com/­ingresmemgraph.com/­docsdocs.tigergraph.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperSpotifyActian CorporationMemgraph Ltd
Initial release20141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201720172009
Current release11.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC and C++C++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesschema-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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslySharding infodynamic graph partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesIngres ReplicatorMulti-source replication using RAFTnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes inforelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsRole-based access controlno
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Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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