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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JSqlDb vs. Kingbase

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JSqlDb vs. Kingbase

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantjsqldb.org (offline)www.kingbase.com.cn
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperExasolSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Konrad von BackstromBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.
Initial release20002014201020181999
Current release0.8, December 2018V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC and Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnononoStandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptfunctions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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