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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. InfluxDB vs. mSQL vs. ScyllaDB vs. Snowflake

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageKey-value store
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Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.scylladb.comwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdocs.scylladb.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperSpotifyHughes TechnologiesScyllaDBSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20142013199420152014
Current release2.7.6, April 20244.4, October 2021ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaGoCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indices
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes, Luauser defined functions
Triggersnonononono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
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 enginenoyes infoin-memory tablesno
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accountsnoAccess rights for users can be defined per objectUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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HeroicInfluxDBmSQL infoMini SQLScyllaDBSnowflake
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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ScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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ScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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ScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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ScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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