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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. SAP IQ vs. Splice Machine vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	0.13
Rank	#335	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#244	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

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

splicemachine.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Spotify

SAP, formerly Sybase

Splice Machine

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2014

1994

2014

2011

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.1, March 2021

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Yes, via Full Spark 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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

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