DBMS > Heroic vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Spotify

IBM

Microsoft

Percona

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2014

2016

2015

2014

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java
PHP

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Transact SQL

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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