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DBMS > Heroic vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Quasardb vs. searchxml

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Quasardb vs. searchxml

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchCloud-based data warehousing serviceDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousequasar.aiwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperSpotifyIBMquasardbinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2014201420092015
Current release3.14.1, January 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLnoyes infoon the application server
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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