DBMS > Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenTSDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. OpenTSDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

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	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/google/leveldb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

opentsdb.net

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Spotify

Google

Microsoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

2011

2014

2011

Current release

1.23, February 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP API
Telnet API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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