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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. NSDb vs. Pinecone vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server 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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#87	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

nsdb.io

www.pinecone.io

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

Spotify

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2014

2010

2017

2019

1993

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

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

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

String, Number, Boolean

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Java
Scala

Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
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

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

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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