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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. openGauss vs. SAP IQ

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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 high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	1.11
Rank	#175	Overall
	#79	Relational DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

gitee.com/opengauss
opengauss.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.opengauss.org/en
gitee.com/opengauss/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Spotify

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Huawei and openGauss community

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2010

2019

1994

Current release

3.0, March 2022

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

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

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL 2011

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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