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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. MaxDB vs. OceanBase vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.57
Rank	#149	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

maxdb.sap.com

en.oceanbase.com

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Spotify

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2014

1984

2010

2006

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

4.3.0, April 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Commercial license available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using Paxos

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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