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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. OushuDB vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

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

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

boilerbay.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.oushu.com/documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Spotify

Boiler Bay Inc.

Microsoft

Oushu

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2014

2002

2016

2008

Current release

4.0

4.0.1, August 2020

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

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

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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