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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Ingres vs. Pinecone vs. SpatiaLite vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchWell established RDBMSA managed, cloud-native vector databaseSpatial extension of SQLiteA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.85
Rank#207  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.pinecone.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdb
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlwww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042
DeveloperSpotifyActian CorporationPinecone Systems, IncAlessandro FurieriTencent
Initial release20141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201920082013
Current release11.2, May 20225.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedserver-lesshosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyesyes
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 availablenonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesPythonC
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes
Triggersnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesIngres ReplicatornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
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.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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