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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. MariaDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Sadas Engine

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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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Spotify

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2014

2013

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2015

2006

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

11.3.2, February 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

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

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

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

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

using Azure authentication

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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