DBMS > Firebolt vs. Heroic vs. InfinityDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Heroic vs. InfinityDB vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

www.firebolt.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

boilerbay.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.firebolt.io

spotify.github.io/heroic

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Spotify

Boiler Bay Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2020

2014

2002

2010

Current release

4.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

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