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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. HyperSQL vs. SAP IQ vs. Speedb vs. SQLite

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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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

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	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

hsqldb.org

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

www.speedb.io

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Spotify

SAP, formerly Sybase

Speedb

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2014

2001

1994

2020

2000

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

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
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

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