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DBMS > BigObject vs. Heroic vs. Snowflake vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Heroic vs. Snowflake vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitebigobject.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.snowflake.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iospotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.SpotifySnowflake Computing Inc.VictoriaMetrics
Initial release2015201420142018
Current releasev1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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