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DBMS > gStore vs. Heroic vs. Kingbase vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison gStore vs. Heroic vs. Kingbase vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

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NamegStore  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A 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 modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.14
Rank#342  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
#16  RDF stores
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteen.gstore.cngithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.kingbase.com.cnwww.tigergraph.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationen.gstore.cn/­#/­enDocsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperSpotifyBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release20162014199920172009
Current release1.2, November 2023V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyesyesschema-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 Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supportedfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlno

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