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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. MongoDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SingleStore vs. Yanza

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Name

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

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	423.96
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	0.55
Rank	#253	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	5.91
Rank	#61	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.mongodb.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.singlestore.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Spotify

MongoDB, Inc

Percona

SingleStore Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2014

2009

2015

2013

2015

Current release

6.0.7, June 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

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

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

proprietary protocol using JSON

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

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

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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