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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. LeanXcale vs. LevelDB vs. Linter

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Name

Description

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

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

RDBMS for high security requirements

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	0.36
Rank	#280	Overall
	#40	Key-value stores
	#129	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.kinetica.com

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/google/leveldb

linter.ru

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.kinetica.com

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

Developer

Spotify

Kinetica

LeanXcale

Google

relex.ru

Initial release

2014

2012

2015

2011

1990

Current release

7.1, August 2021

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
Java
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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