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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Riak KV vs. TDengine vs. Vertica vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeTime Series DBMS and big data platformCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn orientedTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
www.vertica.comvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.tdengine.comvertica.com/­documentationdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperSpotifyOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesTDEngine, previously Taos DataOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20142009201920052018
Current release3.2.0, December 20223.0, August 202212.0.3, January 2023v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersno
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Implementation languageJavaErlangCC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Linux
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia ElasticsearchrestrictednoNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.no
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlangnoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differencesno
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes, via alarm monitoringyes, called Custom Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryesMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.Synchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno infoBi-directional Spark integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storednoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, using Riak Securityyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash
More information provided by the system vendor
HeroicRiak KVTDengineVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™VictoriaMetrics
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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