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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Machbase Neo vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. TempoIQ

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Name	Heroic  Xexclude from comparison	Machbase Neo Former name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparison	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparison	TempoIQ formerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
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Description	Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch	TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData	Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server	Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database model	Time Series DBMS	Time Series DBMS	Relational DBMS	Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 0.46 Rank #265   Overall #22   Time Series DBMS	Score 0.17 Rank #337   Overall #30   Time Series DBMS	Score 19.93 Rank #31   Overall #19   Relational DBMS
Website	github.com/­spotify/­heroic	machbase.com	azure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analytics	tempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentation	spotify.github.io/­heroic	machbase.com/­dbms	docs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analytics
Developer	Spotify	Machbase	Microsoft	TempoIQ
Initial release	2014	2013	2016	2012
Current release		V8.0, August 2023
License Commercial or Open Source	Open Source Apache 2.0	commercial free test version available	commercial	commercial
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	yes	yes
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Implementation language	Java	C	C++
Server operating systems		Linux macOS Windows	hosted
Data scheme	schema-free	yes	yes	schema-free
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	yes	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.	no	no	no	no
Secondary indexes	yes via Elasticsearch	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	no	SQL-like query language	yes	no
APIs and other access methods	HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language) HTTP API	gRPC HTTP REST JDBC MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport) ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC	HTTP API
Supported programming languages		C C# C++ Go Java JavaScript PHP via ODBC Python R via ODBC Scala	C# Java PHP	C# Java JavaScript Node.js Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	no	Transact SQL	no
Triggers	no	no	no	yes Realtime Alerts
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding	Sharding	Sharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	yes	selectable replication factor	yes
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	Eventual Consistency Immediate Consistency		Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no	no docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints	no
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	no	ACID	no
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	no	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes volatile and lookup table		no
User concepts Access control		simple password-based access control	yes	simple authentication-based access control
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	Heroic	Machbase Neo Former name was Infiniflux	Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics previously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse	TempoIQ formerly TempoDB
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