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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. ObjectBox vs. RocksDB vs. Rockset vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
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Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.objectbox.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rockset.com

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

Developer

Spotify

ObjectBox Limited

Facebook, Inc.

Rockset

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2014

2017

2013

2019

2006

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free trial version available

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 and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

yes

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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

More information provided by the system vendor

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14 November 2023

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