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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Quasardb vs. Riak TS vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

quasar.ai

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Spotify

quasardb

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2009

2015

1987

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

with tags

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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