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DBMS > Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Snowflake

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud serviceRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score44.69
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicrocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­hana.htmlwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikihelp.sap.com/­hanahelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperSpotifyFacebook, Inc.SAPSAP infoformerly SybaseSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20142013201019922014
Current release8.11.4, April 20242.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSDcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono infoalso available as a cloud based servicenoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAppliance or cloud-serviceAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononoyesyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoSQLScript, Ryes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perluser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningyesnoneyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesyesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDACIDACID
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.noyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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