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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. JaguarDB vs. LokiJS vs. Pinecone vs. RRDtool

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA managed, cloud-native vector databaseIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Document storeVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.jaguardb.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.pinecone.iooss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperSpotifyDataJaguar, Inc.Pinecone Systems, IncTobias Oetiker
Initial release20142015201420191999
Current release3.3 July 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesJavaScriptC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoString, Number, BooleanNumeric data only
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.nonononono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersnonono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptPythonC infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replicationnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistencynonenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnono

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