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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. searchxml vs. TerarkDB

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.firebolt.iogithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.kinetica.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.iospotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.kinetica.comwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.SpotifyKineticainformationpartners gmbhByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20202014201220152016
Current release7.1, August 20211.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxWindows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 Elasticsearchyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryesSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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