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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. Machbase Neo vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Primary database model

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Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

machbase.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

machbase.com/dbms

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

Developer

Spotify

Machbase

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Percona

Initial release

2014

2013

1984

2015

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

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