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DBMS > Heroic vs. Postgres-XL vs. Teradata vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Postgres-XL vs. Teradata vs. VelocityDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.teradata.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.teradata.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperSpotifyTeradataVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20142014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB19842011
Current release10 R1, October 2018Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20197.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC#
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
hosted
Linux
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 functionalityyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsno
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
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelno
TriggersnoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoHashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoMVCCACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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 rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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