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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Vertica vs. Warp 10

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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

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	10.68
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

hsqldb.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.vertica.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

vertica.com/documentation

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Spotify

Microsoft

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

SenX

Initial release

2014

2001

2016

2005

2015

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

12.0.3, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C#
Java
PHP

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Transact SQL

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

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; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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Key customers

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