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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Kingbase vs. Machbase Neo

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Name

Description

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

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.kingbase.com.cn

machbase.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Spotify

IBM

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Machbase

Initial release

2014

2017

1999

2013

Current release

2.0

V8.0, August 2021

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

free test version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Active-active shard replication

yes

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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