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DBMS > Heroic vs. Hyprcubd vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Hyprcubd vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Memcached

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchServerless Time Series DBMSDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroichyprcubd.com (offline)www.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperSpotifyHyprcubd, Inc.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release201420102003
Current release1.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoErlangC
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringnono
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
gRPC (https)RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controltoken accessAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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