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DBMS > Heroic vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. QuestDB

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. QuestDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.65
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score22.71
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#115  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmaxdb.sap.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsquestdb.io
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperSpotifySAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997MicrosoftQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release2014198420162014
Current release7.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 Elasticsearchyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesSQL with time-series extensions
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
Java
PHP
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesTransact SQLno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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HeroicMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseQuestDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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