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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Hyprcubd vs. jBASE vs. openGemini vs. PostgreSQL

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Serverless Time Series DBMS

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

Primary database model

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#156	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	636.25
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.postgresql.org

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.opengemini.org/guide

www.postgresql.org/docs

Developer

Spotify

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Huawei and openGemini community

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Initial release

2014

1991

2022

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

Current release

5.7

1.1, July 2023

16.3, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

optional

Integer, Float, Boolean, 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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

SQL-like query language

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC (https)

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

token access

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Administrators and common users accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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