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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. KeyDB vs. PostGIS vs. searchxml vs. TinkerGraph

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
postgis.netwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productstinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.keydb.devpostgis.net/­documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperSpotifyEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.informationpartners gmbh
Initial release20142019200520152009
Current release3.4.2, February 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
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++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsGroovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuauser defined functionsyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACIDmultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access control and ACLyes infobased on PostgreSQLDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesno

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