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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata Aster vs. Warp 10

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rocksdb.org

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Spotify

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

Teradata

SenX

Initial release

2014

2007

2013

2005

2015

Current release

14.1, August 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

schema-free

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

in Aster File Store

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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