DBMS > BigObject vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	0.13
Rank	#333	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

bigobject.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.oracle.com/database

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

spotify.github.io/heroic

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.oracle.com/en/database

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Spotify

Microsoft

Oracle

Yandex

Initial release

2015

2014

1989

1980

2023

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists

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