DBMS > Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. StarRocks

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.93
Rank	#198	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

jsqldb.org (offline)

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.starrocks.io

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

Developer

Spotify

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Initial release

2014

2018

2016

1993

2020

Current release

0.8, December 2018

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
MySQL protocol

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
PHP

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

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

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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