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DBMS > Heroic vs. PostGIS vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. PostGIS vs. TigerGraph

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#141  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicpostgis.netwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperSpotify
Initial release201420052017
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLRole-based access control

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