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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Snowflake vs. VelocityDB

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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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.snowflake.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Spotify

SAP, formerly Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2013

1994

2014

2011

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Based on Windows Authentication

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