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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kingbase vs. MaxDB

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.73
Rank	#108	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#265	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	2.65
Rank	#111	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.kingbase.com.cn

maxdb.sap.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

Developer

Spotify

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Initial release

2014

2010

1999

1984

Current release

V8.0, August 2021

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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