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DBMS > Heroic vs. Microsoft Access vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PouchDB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Microsoft Access vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. PouchDB vs. SiteWhere

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accesswww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbpouchdb.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbpouchdb.com/­guidessitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperSpotifyMicrosoftPerconaApache Software FoundationSiteWhere
Initial release20141992201520122010
Current release1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.4.10-2.10, November 20177.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freepredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 Elasticsearchyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardnonono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
proprietary protocol using JSONHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineJavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
selectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovia In-Memory Engineyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users and rolesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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