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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Lovefield vs. Quasardb vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

google.github.io/lovefield

quasar.ai

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Spotify

Google

quasardb

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2014

2009

2020

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

3.14.1, January 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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