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DBMS > Heroic vs. KairosDB vs. MonetDB vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. KairosDB vs. MonetDB vs. PostGIS

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  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 H2A relational database management system that stores data in columnsSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score20.16
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.monetdb.orgpostgis.net
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroickairosdb.github.iowww.monetdb.org/­Documentationpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperSpotifyMonetDB BV
Initial release2014201320042005
Current release1.2.2, November 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding via remote tablesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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