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DBMS > Heroic vs. searchxml vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. searchxml vs. SpatiaLite vs. TerarkDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverSpatial extension of SQLiteA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Spatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperSpotifyinformationpartners gmbhAlessandro FurieriByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2014201520082016
Current release1.05.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C++
Server operating systemsWindowsserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoon the application servernono
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writerACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesnono

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