DBMS > Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Trafodion vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Trafodion vs. Yanza

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Name

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Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

trafodion.apache.org

yanza.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Spotify

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Yanza

Initial release

2014

2015

1993

2014

2015

Current release

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

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

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Delphi
Perl
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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