DBMS > Heroic vs. Newts vs. NuoDB vs. Riak TS vs. TDSQL for MySQL

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Newts vs. NuoDB vs. Riak TS vs. TDSQL for MySQL

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#205	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

opennms.github.io/newts

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.tencentcloud.com/products/dcdb

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

doc.nuodb.com

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

www.tencentcloud.com/document/product/1042

Developer

Spotify

OpenNMS Group

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Tencent

Initial release

2014

2013

2015

2013

Current release

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
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

C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Meet some database management systems you are likely to hear more about in the future
4 August 2014, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

NuoDB Expands Community Edition to Support Elastic Scale-Out
15 May 2024, Yahoo Singapore News

Dassault Systèmes Announces the Acquisition of NuoDB, a Cloud-Native Distributed SQL Database Leader
25 November 2020, Dassault Systèmes

Deploy the NuoDB Database in Docker Containers
16 October 2017, The New Stack

NuoDB set to improve distributed SQL performance
7 January 2020, TechTarget

Big Data Product Watch 1/31/17: No-Cost NuoDB, GPU Analytics, Cloud Object Storage, More -- ADTmag
31 January 2017, ADT Magazine

provided by Google News

Best open source databases for IoT applications
26 May 2017, Open Source For You

provided by Google News

Tencent Cloud Database recognised for cloud database management systems
21 December 2022, IT Brief Australia

Tencent Cloud Distributed Database Ranks First in the Growth Index: Frost & Sullivan's "2021 China Distributed ...
16 May 2022, PR Newswire Asia

Indonesia's Allo Bank taps Tencent Cloud to enhance digital banking services
6 July 2023, FinTech Futures

Tencent Cloud and Allo Bank partner to enhance digital banking in Indonesia, ETCIO SEA
6 July 2023, ETCIO South East Asia

Chinese government blocks use of Intel, AMD chips in hardware
25 March 2024, Yahoo Singapore News

provided by Google News

Share this page