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DBMS > Heroic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. StarRocks vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. StarRocks vs. SwayDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 scalabilityAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.starrocks.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperSpotifyInterSystemsThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023Simer Plaha
Initial release2014201820202018
Current release2023.3, June 20232.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaScala
Server operating systemsAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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 datanoACIDnoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsno
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