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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Realm vs. SpatiaLite

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsrealm.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsrealm.io/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperSpotifySymasMicrosoftRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Alessandro Furieri
Initial release20142011201620142008
Current release0.9.32, January 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
server-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQLno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnononoyes infoChange Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesyesno

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