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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Kinetica vs. SQL.JS vs. TerarkDB vs. XTDB

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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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.kinetica.com

sql.js.org

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.kinetica.com

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Spotify

Kinetica

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

ByteDance, originally Terark

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2012

2016

2019

Current release

7.1, August 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

JavaScript

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript

C++
Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

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

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

yes, each node contains all data

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

none

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

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

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