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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Realm vs. Sadas Engine vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

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Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

realm.io

www.sadasengine.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

realm.io/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Spotify

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SADAS s.r.l.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2006

1994

Current release

8.0

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

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++

Server operating systems

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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