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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. Kdb vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBHigh performance Time Series DBMSA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Wide column storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroichsqldb.orgkx.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
terminusdb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroichsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlcode.kx.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSpotifyKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcAlex KashirinDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release201420012000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320202018
Current release2.7.2, June 20233.6, May 20180.5, April 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaqC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (q)SQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C++JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnoyesyes infowith viewsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal partitioningShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsRole-based access control
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HeroicHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDBKdbSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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