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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Postgres-XL vs. RisingWave

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperSpotifyRisingWave Labs
Initial release20142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2022
Current release10 R1, October 20181.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageJavaCRust
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesStandard SQL-types and JSON
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and Roles

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