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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. NCache vs. OpenTSDB vs. Riak KV vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

opentsdb.net

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Spotify

Alachisoft

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2014

2005

2011

2009

2006

Current release

5.3.3, April 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking and pessimistic 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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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