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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Teradata Aster vs. Tkrzw vs. YottaDB

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed 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

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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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

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

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

dbmx.net/tkrzw

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

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

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Spotify

Microsoft

Teradata

Mikio Hirabayashi

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2014

2015

2005

2020

2001

Current release

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

optimistic locking

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

using specific database classes

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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