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DBMS > Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kingbase vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kingbase vs. Yanza

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza 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 ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.kingbase.com.cnyanza.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBMBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Yanza
Initial release20142010201719992015
Current release2.0V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC and C++C and Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesno
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Active-active shard replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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