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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Kingbase vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  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 CouchDBAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series 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
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.kingbase.com.cnobjectbox.ioopentsdb.net
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.objectbox.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.ObjectBox Limitedcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20142010199920172011
Current releaseV8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC and JavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
Proprietary native APIHTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno
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