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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Db2 vs. mSQL vs. openGemini vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	125.90
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/db2

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

docs.opengemini.org/guide

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Spotify

IBM

Hughes Technologies

Huawei and openGemini community

Oracle

Initial release

2014

1983

host version

1994

2022

1980

Current release

12.1, October 2016

4.4, October 2021

1.1, July 2023

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version is available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Administrators and common users accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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