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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

hsqldb.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io/Architecture

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Spotify

Microsoft

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2001

2016

2017

1994

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C#
Java
PHP

Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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