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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. RocksDB vs. SiteWhere

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#367	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

rocksdb.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Spotify

Facebook, Inc.

SiteWhere

Initial release

2014

2013

2010

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

predefined scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

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

C++ API
Java API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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