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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Rockset vs. RRDtool vs. SAP IQ vs. TimescaleDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicrockset.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.rockset.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­dochelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperSpotifyRocksetTobias OetikerSAP, formerly SybaseTimescale
Initial release20142019199919942017
Current release1.8.0, 202216.1 SPS04, April 20192.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC
Server operating systemshostedHP-UX
Linux
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesdynamic typingNumeric data onlyyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nono infoingestion from XML files supportedno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenoyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchall fields are automatically indexednoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsnoyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP RESTin-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingnoneshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexeryes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesnoneSAP/Sybase Replication ServerSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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