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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. KeyDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#223	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.84
Rank	#33	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.34
Rank	#155	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

machbase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.keydb.dev

machbase.com/dbms

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Spotify

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

Machbase

Microsoft

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2014

2019

2013

2016

2010

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

Transact SQL

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication
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

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control and ACL

simple password-based access control

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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