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DBMS > Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP IQ vs. Vitess

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

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  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 HSQLDBElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroichsqldb.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlvitess.io
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroichsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperSpotifyMicrosoftSAP, formerly SybaseThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release20142001201619942013
Current release2.7.2, June 202316.1 SPS04, April 201915.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
Java
PHP
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLTransact SQLyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyesSAP/Sybase Replication ServerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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