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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. SAP IQ vs. TDengine vs. TiDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsTime Series DBMS and big data platformTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score4.66
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
pingcap.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.tdengine.comdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
DeveloperSpotifySAP, formerly SybaseTDEngine, previously Taos DataPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20142013199420192016
Current release2.7.6, April 202416.1 SPS04, April 20193.0, August 20228.0.0, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoCGo, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsyes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
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
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersnonoyesyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ MultiplexerShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySAP/Sybase Replication ServeryesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationyes infowith TiSpark Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage enginenono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
HeroicInfluxDBSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQTDengineTiDB
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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