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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. PieCloudDB vs. SingleStore

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score3.54
Rank#84  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.openpie.comwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperSpotifyInterSystemsOpenPieSingleStore Inc.
Initial release201420182013
Current release2023.3, June 20232.1, January 20238.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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SingleStoreDB Cloud: The world's fastest, modern cloud database for both operational (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) workloads. Available instantly with multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud capabilities
Implementation languageJavaC++, Go
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hostedLinux info64 bit version required
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyesSharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL StandardFine grained access control via users, groups and roles
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HeroicInterSystems IRISPieCloudDBSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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SingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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IEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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