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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Kingbase vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name	Heroic  Xexclude from comparison	Kingbase  Xexclude from comparison	SAP Advantage Database Server former name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison	Transwarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
			SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
Description	Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch	An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.	Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures	Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Vector DBMS
Secondary database models		Document store Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.46 Rank #265   Overall #22   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.50 Rank #257   Overall #119   Relational DBMS		Score 0.05 Rank #386   Overall #15   Vector DBMS
Website	github.com/­spotify/­heroic	www.kingbase.com.cn	www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html	www.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentation	spotify.github.io/­heroic
Developer	Spotify	BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.	Sybase, SAP
Initial release	2014	1999	1993	2023
Current release		V8.0, August 2021		1.0, May 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no	no
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Implementation language	Java	C and Java		C++
Server operating systems		Linux Windows	Linux Windows	Linux macOS
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	Vector, Numeric and String
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.	no	yes	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes via Elasticsearch	yes	yes	no
SQL Support of SQL	no	Standard with numerous extensions	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language) HTTP API	ADO.NET gokb JDBC kdbndp ODBC PDI PDO Pro*C psycopg2 QT	.NET Client API ADO.NET JDBC ODBC OLE DB	RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages		.Net C C++ Go Java JavaScript (Node.js) Perl PHP Python	Delphi Perl PHP	C++ Java Python
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	user defined functions	yes	no
Triggers	no	yes	yes	no
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning	none	Sharding
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	yes	Multi-source replication CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	yes	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no		no caching of (temporary) tables can be configured	yes
User concepts Access control		fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard	Role based access control and fine grained access rights
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