DBMS > Heroic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Rockset vs. SAP HANA

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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

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.54
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

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

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Spotify

InterSystems

Percona

Rockset

SAP

Initial release

2014

2018

2015

2019

2010

Current release

2023.3, June 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Linux

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

yes

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