DBMS > Dragonfly vs. Heroic vs. Hyprcubd vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. Heroic vs. Hyprcubd vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Snowflake

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

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Description

A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instance

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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#261	Overall
	#38	Key-value stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dragonflydb/dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.dragonflydb.io/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

DragonflyDB team and community contributors

Spotify

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Sybase, SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2023

2014

1993

2014

Current release

1.0, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSL 1.1

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

scheme-free

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arrays

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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 query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protocol

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

gRPC (https)

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

publish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionality

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic execution of command blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, strict serializability by the server

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Password-based authentication

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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