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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Postgres-XL vs. SingleStore vs. Teradata vs. XTDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 featuresMySQL 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 typeA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.singlestore.comwww.teradata.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.singlestore.comdocs.teradata.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSpotifySingleStore Inc.TeradataJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201319842019
Current release10 R1, October 20188.5, January 2024Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++, GoClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Linux info64 bit version requiredhosted
Linux
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 functionalitynoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
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
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infohash partitioningSharding infoHashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoMVCCACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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HeroicPostgres-XLSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLTeradataXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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