DBMS > Heroic vs. Ingres vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Ingres vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite vs. TDSQL for MySQL

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Well established RDBMS

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Spatial extension of SQLite

A 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 model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#207	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.actian.com/ingres

help.sap.com/hana

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Spotify

Actian Corporation

SAP

Alessandro Furieri

Tencent

Initial release

2014

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2010

2008

2013

Current release

11.2, May 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

yes

none

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Ingres Replicator

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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