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DBMS > Heroic vs. Ingres vs. LevelDB vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Ingres vs. LevelDB vs. Riak KV

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchWell established RDBMSEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­google/­leveldb
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.actian.com/­ingresgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperSpotifyActian CorporationGoogleOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20112009
Current release11.2, May 20221.23, February 20213.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++Erlang
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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 Elasticsearchyesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoErlang
Triggersnoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesIngres Replicatornoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between data sets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes, using Riak Security

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