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DBMS > Heroic vs. Lovefield vs. SiteWhere vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Lovefield vs. SiteWhere vs. TerarkDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheregithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperSpotifyGoogleSiteWhereByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2014201420102016
Current release2.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptJavaC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyespredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP RESTC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDBnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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