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DBMS > Firebolt vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. SpaceTime vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Graphite vs. Heroic vs. SpaceTime vs. SWC-DB

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitewww.firebolt.iogithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iographite.readthedocs.iospotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.Chris DavisSpotifyMireoAlex Kashirin
Initial release20202006201420202020
Current release0.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languagePythonJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingFixed-grid hypercubesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layernoneyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes

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