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DBMS > Heroic vs. Ingres vs. JaguarDB vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Ingres vs. JaguarDB vs. LokiJS

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchWell established RDBMSPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.jaguardb.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperSpotifyActian CorporationDataJaguar, Inc.
Initial release20141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20152014
Current release11.2, May 20223.3 July 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaCC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScript
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesIngres ReplicatorMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsno

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