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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. searchxml vs. Speedb

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  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 CouchDBDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.speedb.io
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014informationpartners gmbhSpeedb
Initial release2014201020152020
Current release1.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++C++
Server operating systemshostedWindowsLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblemultiple readers, single writeryes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno
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HeroicIBM CloudantsearchxmlSpeedb
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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