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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. OpenEdge vs. SwayDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Application development environment with integrated database management system

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.progress.com/openedge

swaydb.simer.au

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

Developer

Spotify

InterSystems

Progress Software Corporation

Simer Plaha

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2018

1984

2018

2020

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

Users and groups

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