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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. JanusGraph vs. Memgraph vs. SiteWhere vs. Sphinx

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonJanusGraph infosuccessor of Titan  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSA Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters infoIt was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.02
Rank#125  Overall
#12  Graph DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresjanusgraph.orgmemgraph.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.janusgraph.orgmemgraph.com/­docssitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperActian CorporationLinux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by AureliusMemgraph LtdSiteWhereSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2017201720102001
Current release11.2, May 20220.6.3, February 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC and C++JavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalpredefined schemeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP RESTProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes infodepending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)Sharding infodynamic graph partitioningSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatoryesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics enginenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph ServerUsers, roles and permissionsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno
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