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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. SpatiaLite vs. VoltDB vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Spatial extension of SQLite

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	22.71
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#358	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.voltdb.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

docs.voltdb.com

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Spotify

Microsoft

Alessandro Furieri

VoltDB Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2014

2016

2008

2010

2015

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java, C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux
OS X

for development

Linux
OS X
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

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Java

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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