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DBMS > Heroic vs. KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. KairosDB vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. OpenQM

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.27
Rank#298  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qm
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroickairosdb.github.iodocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperSpotifyKineticaRocket Software, originally Martin Phillips
Initial release20142013201220141993
Current release1.2.2, November 20187.1, August 20213.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC, C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infowith some exceptions
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item level

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