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DBMS > Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. Pinecone vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. Pinecone vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA managed, cloud-native vector databaseLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.pinecone.iowww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdb
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042
DeveloperSpotifyCirconus LLC.Pinecone Systems, IncSybase, SAPTencent
Initial release20142017201919932013
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsString, Number, Booleanyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
PythonDelphi
Perl
PHP
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luayesyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
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.nononono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configuredno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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