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DBMS > Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. ITTIA vs. Kingbase vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. ITTIA vs. Kingbase vs. RRDtool

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument 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
Score0.39
Rank#273  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ittia.comwww.kingbase.com.cnoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014ITTIA L.L.C.BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Tobias Oetiker
Initial release20142010200719991999
Current release8.7V8.0, August 20211.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC and C++C and JavaC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/IntervalyesNumeric data only
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseDatabase file passwordsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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