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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. QuestDB vs. XTDB

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NameGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegalaxybase.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsquestdb.iogithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsquestdb.io/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司SpotifyMicrosoftQuestDB Technology IncJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20172014201620142019
Current releaseNov 20, November 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and JavaJavaC++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustClojure
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL with time-series extensionslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined procedures and functionsnoTransact SQLnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoRelationships in graphsnono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyes
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GalaxybaseHeroicMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseQuestDBXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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