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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Oracle vs. OrigoDB vs. Qdrant vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.oracle.com/database

origodb.com

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.oracle.com/en/database

origodb.com/docs

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Spotify

Oracle

Robert Friberg et al

Qdrant

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2014

1980

2009

under the name LiveDB

2021

2013

Current release

23c, September 2023

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Rust

C++, Go

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Collection-level replication

Source-replica replication

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

Key-based authentication

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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