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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. ReductStore vs. Sqrrl

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed 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

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

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Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

sqrrl.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.reduct.store/docs

Developer

Spotify

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

ReductStore LLC

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2010

2023

2012

Current release

1.9, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

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

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

atomic operations within a document possible

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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