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System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Heroic vs. Ingres vs. STSdb

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NameeXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNatively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchWell established RDBMSKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#214  Overall
#99  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.mcobject.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperMcObjectSpotifyActian CorporationSTS Soft SC
Initial release200120141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2011
Current release8.2, 202111.2, May 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaCC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.no infosupport of XML interfaces availablenono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLnoyesno
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
.NET Client API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersyes infoby defining eventsnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning / shardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesActive Replication Fabricâ„¢ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
yesIngres Replicatornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyesyes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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Specific characteristicseXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantageseXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenariosIoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customersSchneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metricsWith hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing modelsFor server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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