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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. LevelDB vs. Memcached vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

github.com/google/leveldb

www.memcached.org

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Spotify

Google

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2014

2013

2011

2003

2013

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

1.23, February 2021

1.6.27, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Proprietary protocol

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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