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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. SpatiaLite vs. Transwarp StellarDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Spotify

Alessandro Furieri

Transwarp

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2014

2008

2011

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

OpenCypher

.Net

Supported programming languages

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

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