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DBMS > Heroic vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TerarkDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchCloud-based data warehousing serviceA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-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
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousemaxdb.sap.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperSpotifyIBMSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997MicrosoftByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20142014198420162016
Current release7.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLyesTransact SQLno
Triggersnoyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replicationyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno

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