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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. OpenTenBase vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

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

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

postgis.net

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Spotify

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Initial release

2014

2005

Current release

2.5, January 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Supported programming languages

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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