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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. RisingWave vs. Rockset

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQLA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.02
Rank#365  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score22.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#237  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#181  Overall
#31  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.risingwave.com/­databaserockset.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­introdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperSpotifyRisingWave LabsRockset
Initial release2014201320222019
Current release2.7.6, April 20241.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoRustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Docker
Linux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and StringsStandard SQL-types and JSONdynamic typing
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoUDFs in Python or Javano
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsUsers and RolesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console
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HeroicInfluxDBRisingWaveRockset
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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